Replies: 5 comments 23 replies
-
|
If I'm understanding you correctly, you can get the behavior you want by splitting your prompt into three blocks and using powerline style within each block. e.g. Using "diamond" to emulate "powerline" is problematic because if the leading segment isn't displayed the next segment which is rendered won't render with the ">" (or whatever character) you want that range of segments to begin with. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thanks. The problem with “powerline” is that it doesn’t render correctly when there is a transparent background before, because Windows Terminal doesn’t support transparent foreground (at least not the way oh my posh does it by setting the foreground and then inverting). It’s a really annoying limitation that makes powerline form useless for split prompts 🙁 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Is this what you're trying to achieve? 
Code{
"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
"blocks": [
{
"alignment": "left",
"segments": [
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"template": " Part1 "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "powerline",
"powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"alias": "A",
"template": " A "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "powerline",
"powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#b925af",
"alias": "B",
"template": " B "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "powerline",
"powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#df74d8",
"alias": "C",
"template": " C "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"template": " Part2 "
}
],
"type": "prompt"
}
],
"final_space": true,
"version": 2
}Or this? 
Code{
"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
"blocks": [
{
"alignment": "left",
"segments": [
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"template": " Part1 "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"alias": "A",
"template": " A "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#b925af",
"alias": "B",
"template": " B "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#df74d8",
"alias": "C",
"template": " C "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"template": " Part2 "
}
],
"type": "prompt"
}
],
"final_space": true,
"version": 2
} |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@pfmoore it contains every segment of that block which then should in this case imply |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Ah, OK. So it would fail to work if there were two multi-segment parts like A>B>C. Maybe that could be fixed by using multiple blocks, I'll look into that a bit further. I really appreciate all the help here, and I don't want to sound negative, but it is all a bit complicated for something that's basically a workaround for the Windows Terminal transparent foreground bug. Is there any mileage in the idea of an |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@pfmoore the last addition to nerd fonts (PR you linked) seems to work perfectly. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Oh that's great. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
Code{
"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
"blocks": [
{
"alignment": "left",
"segments": [
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "\ue0d7",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"template": " Part1 "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "powerline",
"leading_powerline_symbol": "\ue0d7",
"powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"alias": "A",
"template": " A "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "powerline",
"leading_powerline_symbol": "\ue0d7",
"powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#b925af",
"alias": "B",
"template": " B "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "powerline",
"leading_powerline_symbol": "\ue0d7",
"powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#df74d8",
"alias": "C",
"template": " C "
},
{
"type": "text",
"style": "diamond",
"leading_diamond": "\ue0d7",
"trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
"foreground": "#1c1c1c",
"background": "#95378f",
"template": " Part2 "
}
],
"type": "prompt"
}
],
"final_space": true,
"version": 2
} |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Awesome! Thank you so much 🙂 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I'm happy to see |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Right now it doesn't, but that one could be leveraged to have the same effect. Let me check. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@PGScully this seems to already work just using this configuration: "powerline_symbol": "\ue0d6",
"leading_powerline_symbol": "\ue0b2", |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Hmm, I have those two symbols swapped in my config (with My prompt is here: https://github.com/PGScully/omp, and I'm using Windows Terminal (with acrylic background), and Windows is in dark mode. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Did you try the above? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I did, yes. I eventually got it to work by setting |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thinking some more about this problem, while it's now possible to get the sort of effect I was after, I still find it tricky to reason about what's going on, because the "powerline" segment type doesn't really define a start or end character, but rather a separator between two segments. It's probably way too late now to change things, but the way I think about it, segments should just have a "diamond" type ("plain" is simply a diamond with no end characters) and the "powerline" block should be something else - a "section" that contains multiple segments which are separated by the powerline charcater. So something like: Segments in a "powerline_section" should probably be required to be type "plain", because diamond doesn't make sense if you're separating the segments with a powerline symbol. It's a little more manual to get the effect you want with this approach, but there's a lot less context-dependent behaviour, so overall it's (in my view) a lot more understandable. And it works better when you want more complex displays, like
|
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@pfmoore too late for that is indeed a good statement. There's truth to your design, then again what's intuitive for you, might not be for everyone. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Shame 🙁 I think the thing with powerline is that like many things that "do what you mean" it's great within its specific intended context, but when you try to work beyond that, the implicit behaviour gets in the way too much. I looked at the source, and the Ah well, I think that I'll have to accept a look that isn't quite what I want. It's only cosmetic, after all. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@pfmoore do know that this code is the third iteration of the engine already. It's not easy as feature requests grow over time. I try to rewrite when the time is there, and it's not there yet. It can all be achieved, maybe not as straightforward as you'd like, but it's possible. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Sorry, I certainly wasn't criticising. My apologies if it came across that way. I know very well how difficult it can be to keep things clean, understandable and maintainable in the face of many feature requests - your responsiveness and willingness to help is really appreciated. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@pfmoore I appreciate the feedback, it's just a lot of work 😅 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
I'm trying to construct a prompt that has various "sections". Each section ends with a powerline ">" symbol, then a gap, then the next section. That's relatively easy, you can do it fine with something like this:
(the "leading diamond" is an inverted Powerline diamond, to avoid problems with transparent forground not rendering properly on Windows Terminal). The problem is that if A doesn't display, B merges into Part 1. I tried adding a zero-width text column between part 1 and A/B/C, but then the spacing goes wrong.
The reason I want this sort of layout is that I want to split my prompt into sections: system data, directory, VCS, language versions, times. Within each section there may be zero, one or many sections (a directory could have no code, all Python, or a mix of Python and Javascript, for example).
Is this possible? If it isn't, I can simply design a different layout, but I was hoping to do something like this because it's a bit more readable than an unbroken prompt and better structured than having every segment separated from the others.
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
All reactions