On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:47:01AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > ilm...@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari =?utf-8?Q?Manns=C3=A5ker?=) writes: > > Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > > Yeah, that was my first reaction too. > > > How about a circumfix directive (like the existing %[ ... %]) > > that replaces everything inside with whitespace, but keeps the width? > > Or just define %w as meaning "whitespace of the same width as > PROMPT1". You couldn't use it *in* PROMPT1, then, but I see > no use-case for that anyway.
+1 for doing it this way. Would it make more sense to error out if somebody tried to set that in PROMPT1, or ignore it, or...? Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
