fish-shell/doc_src/fish_prompt.txt
Mark Griffiths 629a39b45b Tutorial auto colouring, Man page and Make fixes
Completely fixes #1557 and the underlying Doxygen changes that caused
it. Should make fish docs simpler and more robust, more consistent and
generally prettier.

todo:
- trap unmarked text as arguments in context
- test & fix sed portability - see in particular. (so far tested on BSD
(Mac) and GNU sed).
- test Makefile changes
- last round of aesthetic changes and getting that ascii fish in there…
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\section fish_prompt fish_prompt - define the appearance of the command line prompt
\subsection fish_prompt-synopsis Synopsis
\fish{synopsis}
function fish_prompt
...
end
\endfish
\subsection fish_prompt-description Description
By defining the `fish_prompt` function, the user can choose a custom
prompt. The `fish_prompt` function is executed when the prompt is to
be shown, and the output is used as a prompt.
The exit status of commands within `fish_prompt` will not modify the value of <a href="index.html#variables-status">$status</a> outside of the `fish_prompt` function.
`fish` ships with a number of example prompts that can be chosen with the
`fish_config` command.
\subsection fish_prompt-example Example
A simple prompt:
\fish
function fish_prompt -d "Write out the prompt"
printf '%s@%s%s%s%s> ' (whoami) (hostname | cut -d . -f 1) \
(set_color $fish_color_cwd) (prompt_pwd) (set_color normal)
end
\endfish