Thomas Steen RasmussenJan 27

Remember when prompt engineering was about making PS1 nice.

On that topic, who has a sick PS1 I can steal?

Show threadreynirJan 27
@tykling not at the computer at the moment, but I hae one that checks an env var that is set by vim so I can easily tell if I'm :sh'ing and don't start nested vim sessions :D
Show threadTak!Jan 27
@reynir @tykling today, I learned about :sh
Show threadreynirJan 27

@Tak I use it all the time! The problem is I tend to lose track where my vim session is, and this PS1 helps. It's useful for compiling, poking around etc.

@tykling In .vimrc I put `let $VIM_IS_OPEN = '(vim is open)'` and then in the PS1 I just put $VIM_IS_OPEN somewhere.

Show threadTak!
@reynir I make heavy use of :! but hadn't known about :sh 🤷
Jan 27 at 4:32pmWeb