An adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh

Re:An adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh by wereHamster on Sunday April 21, 2013 @07:03AM (#5584525)

Solution to that: multi-line prompts. First line with lots of info, second line just '$ '. Or RPROMPT if you are using zsh ([...] RPROMPT parameter. If this is set, the shell puts a prompt on the right side of the screen.)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:An adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh by ralph on Monday April 22, 2013 @06:44AM (#5588699)

That wouldn't give the sequence of almost-blank lines I find most helpful. It would also merge the first, long, line of the prompt with the tail of the previous command's output.

[ Parent | on HN ]