Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and command prompt

Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by scopatz42 on Sunday March 15, 2015 @10:38PM (#9209460)

I'd readily accept any new demo videos :) Just use a white background so it matches the website theme

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Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by strunz on Monday March 16, 2015 @07:54AM (#9210925)

Is there a reason xonsh doesn't honor the PS1 variable from bash to keep your terminal prefix? Or is there a way to customize xonsh's?

Example:

  10:54:01 foo@bar:~/scripts/xonsh$ xonsh
  foo@bar ~/scripts/xonsh $ # no time prefix

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Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by untothebreach on Monday March 16, 2015 @08:28AM (#9211030)

If you go to [http://xonsh.org/tutorial.html#environment-variables] and scroll down to the table, you can see how to change the prompt :)

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Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by strunz on Monday March 16, 2015 @02:49PM (#9213444)

Thanks, doesn't look like you can use anything that isn't in the supported keywords though (like date/time)

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Re:Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and c... by roryokane on Monday March 16, 2015 @07:09PM (#9215129)

It looks to me like you can.

> PROMPT: The prompt text, may be str or function which returns a str.

If you need non-built-in values in your prompt, just set PROMPT to a function, and call something like `date` within the function. Use `%` to format `date`’s output into a template string, and then pass that template string to `xonsh.environ.format_prompt` to get the final value to return from the function.

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