[ILUG] zsh version of justin's nifty two line prompt...

[kevin lyda]

justin mason posted up this article on a nifty two line prompt:

    http://taint.org/2004/06/25/021246a.html

ever since i switched to gnome-terminal i've missed the xterm feature of
triple-click-highlights-current-word-to-the-right-margin.  so this is a
way to get it back.

the zsh version doesn't need a pre command.  it prints the exit code in
green if it's 0 otherwise it prints it in red.  i don't care what
command i'm on, but i do care what tty i'm on.  so the second line shows
that.  anyway, here it is:

    PS1=": exit=%B%(?.%{^[[32m%}.%{^[[31m%})%?%{^[[30m%}%b %S%w %(t.Ding.%T)%s ; cd %{^[[35m%}%B%~%{^[[30m%}%b
    %B%{^[[34m%}: %n@%{^[[35m%}%m%{^[[34m%} on %y ;%{^[[30m%}%b "

note that the ^[ chars are actually escape chars.  in vi you'd enter
them by typing C-v[esc].  and \n didn't work for inserting newlines so
that's why it's split on two lines.

kevin

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