Plugin for displaying ZSH prompt responsively

[nikhgupta]

Hey, I created a responsive prompt for myself, and wanted to contribute the underlying script as a plugin to OhMyZSH. I have documented the instructions, etc.

[mcornella]

This looks impressive and it's a great proof of concept! Let me have some fun with this and see what we can build with it.

I particularly like the breakpoint functionality, that so closely resembles media queries. It looks like it's really flexible! 👍

A quick google search showed me that other people had a go at this (in bash), let's see if we can achieve having responsive prompts by default.

BTW, if you want to try something else, you could try to remove the need to press ENTER to refresh the prompt, using TRAPALRM and TMOUT. It is a little buggy though.

Cheers!

[nikhgupta]

Thanks!

For a sample implementation (the one in above screenshots), you can have a look at my prompt. (Note that, I am heavily iterating over my dotfiles, currently)

Regarding the breakpoints, media-queries were my exact inspiration source :)

This PR is slightly buggy/feature-deficient at the moment (e.g. prompt does not shrink when size remains same but prompt length changes because of a directory change, etc.). I am working on that.

I will have a look at how other people are doing this, and extract the good parts. Also, will have a look at the ZSH manual, tonight.

[kapsh]

It looks cool. But why this was abandoned since 2014?

[nikhgupta]

@mcornella Is this still a go? Wanted to close all open PRs I have.

[mcornella]

Hey Nikhil, I think the feature is very interesting and I'd like to try to bundle it into OMZ in the near future, but not as a plugin. I'll close this but when/if we use your code you'll get proper attribution.

Sorry for the late response though, we're going through the backlog!