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Have you thought about using an asynchronously rendered prompt?

• JoshTriplett 11y ago
  That sounds disconcerting and distracting; I don't want my prompt to change while I'm typing a command. If I already have a command prompt, I can type "git status" easily enough. Also, how would that work?
  • anishathalye 11y ago
    It's not that bad actually - I've been using one since February. Here's a demo (+ code): http://www.anishathalye.com/2015/02/07/an-asynchronous-shell-prompt/ http://www.anishathalye.com/2015/02/07/an-asynchronous-shell...
    • JoshTriplett 11y ago
      Ah, I see. Interesting zsh magic, and the right-prompt mechanism makes it more palatable. Two issues, though. First, I use bash. Second, and more importantly, you're using the same temporary file for all shells, so the prompts from different shells (in different working directories) will overwrite each other.
      • anishathalye 11y ago
        Yeah, not sure if/how to do this in bash :P Yeah, I thought about using a different temp file per shell, and I did use that for some time, but that got annoying when shells didn't exit gracefully and clean up the temp file. I don't actually care about race conditions (okay, the wrong prompt may be displayed once, big deal), and it doesn't actually happen in real use because of the way timing works out.