Would you consider supporting PowerLine-like custom prompts?

[springcomp]

I’m a big fan of Oh My Posh custom prompts and have customized my PSRL PromptText and ContinuationPromptText options like so:

Set-PSReadLineOption -ContinuationPrompt "`e[48;2;88;88;88m `e[0m`e[38;2;88;88;88m$([char]0xE0B0)`e[0m "
Set-PSReadLineOption -PromptText "`e[38;2;88;88;88m$([char]0xE0B0)`e[0m "

Looks a bit barbarian but it gives me a nice prompt like this:

Description of the new feature/enhancement

The problem with customizing the PromptText option with ANSI escape sequences is that this prevents the default processing in RenderErrorPrompt behaviour to kick in. It would be awesome if PSRL would behave like this:

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

I would like to propose an additional option named ErrorPromptText that could be customized.
If set to a particular value, it would take precedence over PromptText being rendered in red and would be written as is.

What do you think?

[lzybkr]

This is already supported, but it's maybe not very discoverable.

The PromptText option can optionally accept an array where the first element is the normal prompt and the second is the error text.

This is an extract from my profile:

$esc = [char]0x1b
$pc = [char]0xe0b0
$fg = "0"
$nbg = "8;2;95;158;160"
$ebg = "1"

$options = @{
    PromptText = "$esc[4${nbg};3${fg}mPS$esc[4${fg};3${nbg}m$pc",
                 "$esc[4${ebg};3${fg}mPS$esc[4${fg};3${ebg}m$pc"
}

Set-PSReadLineOption @options

And this prompt in action:

[springcomp]

Oh, that's awesome. Thank you !

[daxian-dbw]

We will have a series of blogs about PSReadLine functionalities in the next month of so, and this one will be included.

[mattcargile]

Was there ever a blog created for this? I searched around a little bit and couldn't find one. It is a really cool feature. I'm about to integrate it with my oh-my-posh.exe setup.

[daxian-dbw]

@mattcargile Sorry, obviously our PM team didn't get the bandwidth to do this. I have added this issue to the "Features-for-Blogging" milestone to track it for the future blogging work.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@mattcargile SOON™️ 👀

promptText.mp4

[mattcargile]

Oh snap, @JanDeDobbeleer ! That is awesome! So beautiful!