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Re: Conditional newline in prompt

On 1 December 2010 21:42, Christoph Wurm <christoph@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to display the exit code of a command if it is not 0 on a line
> of its own, followed by the prompt on the next line.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> I was able to come up with the following:
>
> PROMPT="%0(?..%?)
> %{$fg[green]%}%n@%m%{$reset_color%}:%~ %{$fg[red]%}%#%{$reset_color%} "
>
> However, this prints a newline after every command. Is there some equivalent
> of '\n' that can be used inside the conditional substring? Or some other way
> to do this?

Yes, a newline works fine.
% PS1='%0(?..%?
)%~> '
~> false
1
~> true
~>

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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