Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello hackers, > > From the advanced bikeshedding department: I'd like my psql > transcripts to have the usual alignment, but be easier to copy and > paste later without having weird prompt stuff in the middle. How > about a prompt format directive %w that means "whitespace of the same > width as %/"? Then you can make set your PROMPT2 to '%w ' and it > becomes invisible:
That only lines up nicely if %/ is the only variable-width directive in PROMPT1. How about a circumfix directive (like the existing %[ ... %]) that replaces everything inside with whitespace, but keeps the width? - ilmari -- "The surreality of the universe tends towards a maximum" -- Skud's Law "Never formulate a law or axiom that you're not prepared to live with the consequences of." -- Skud's Meta-Law
