Add newline to Oh My ZSH Theme
I'm trying to add a newline to my existing Oh My ZSH theme but can't figure out what to add or where it should be added / changed. Any ideas?
Solution 1:
I was actually searching for the same answer. But my needs was a little more specific since I only wanted to add a newline in the agnoster theme, the one I'm using now.
In my research, I find a lot of forked themes that already do it, but I thought that this was an overkill solution for only add a new line.
So I read the agnoster
code and come up with this simple solution of overwrite the prompt_end()
function in my .zshrc
file.
To do it, just add the code bellow in your .zshrc
file:
prompt_end() {
if [[ -n $CURRENT_BG ]]; then
print -n "%{%k%F{$CURRENT_BG}%}$SEGMENT_SEPARATOR"
else
print -n "%{%k%}"
fi
print -n "%{%f%}"
CURRENT_BG=''
#Adds the new line and ➜ as the start character.
printf "\n ➜";
}
Hope it helps you to have a clue on how to customize your chosen theme.
Here is the result:
Solution 2:
Here is my version which works just like the others, but repeats the last symbol of the previous line so that it imitates the exact prompt that agnoster gives you:
prompt_end() {
if [[ -n $CURRENT_BG ]]; then
echo -n " %{%k%F{$CURRENT_BG}%}$SEGMENT_SEPARATOR"
else
echo -n "%{%k%}"
fi
echo -n "\n%{%F{$CURRENT_BG}%}$SEGMENT_SEPARATOR%{%f%}"
CURRENT_BG=''
}
Note: If you do not want to modify the library's source code, you can also just put this function into your ~/.zshrc
file near the end. It will then be used over the library-provided function.
Solution 3:
I think the proper place to change one's prompt is in the theme itself. On my system, it's in ~/.oh=my-zsh/themes/agnoster.zsh-theme
. I added a \n➜
there:
Find this section:
# End the prompt, closing any open segments
prompt_end() {
if [[ -n $CURRENT_BG ]]; then
echo -n " %
{%k%F{$CURRENT_BG}%}$SEGMENT_SEPARATOR"
else
echo -n "%{%k%}"
fi
echo -n "\n➜%{%f%}"
CURRENT_BG=''
}
Solution 4:
How about this
NEWLINE=$'\n'
PROMPT='%n ${NEWLINE} $ '