After watching Ondrej's git videos, I became jealous of the (branch name) at the end of his bash prompt. I googled around and was able to put something together that I like. The trick was getting it to work in color. Especially tricky for me was getting back to the default white after the branch name. I found that I could get either light gray or bold white, neither of which I liked. But a code that doesn't really make sense to bash seems to get me back to the default.
I added these to my .bashrc: function parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/' } PS1="\...@\h:\w\[\e[0;33m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\e[0;39m\]$ " where \[\e[0;33m\] switches to a medium yellow and \[\e[0;39m\] switches back to the default white (for me). I borrowed ideas from these places: How to get the branch name in the prompt: http://eddorre.com/tags/bash how to tweak the other things in the prompt: http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Bash-Prompt/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-2.html and how to put things in color: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt Ondrej may have a cleaner solution, but I like it a lot. Ryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---