Cmder: Is it possible to show the current folder in front of cursor on the current line?

[kirkouimet]

Is it possible to mimic the standard cmd.exe behavior by keeping the cursor on the same line as the current folder, e.g.,

C:\Folder _

[fredericseiler]

You can change the prompt style in your cmder\vendorinit.bat.

• If you want the default Windows cmd prompt, just replace it with @prompt $P$G.
• If you want to keep the "advanced" Cmder prompt, but without the line break, remove the $S$_ part.

[kirkouimet]

Thanks!

[miparnisari]

Where is that line in the latest version? I cannot find it :(

[fredericseiler]

Starting from Cmder 1.3.0, you will find the prompt definition in vendor\clink.lua (function set_prompt_filter()) if you're using a cmd task, or in vendor\profile.ps1 (function global:prompt) if you're using a PowerShell task.

If you want to properly override the prompt in a cmd task, just add your own prompt.lua in the config folder with this definition :

function my_prompt_filter()
    cwd = clink.get_cwd()
    prompt = "\x1b[1;32;40m{cwd} {git}{hg} \n\x1b[1;30;40m{lamb} \x1b[0m"
    new_value = string.gsub(prompt, "{cwd}", cwd)
    clink.prompt.value = string.gsub(new_value, "{lamb}", "λ")
end

clink.prompt.register_filter(my_prompt_filter, 1)

You can then customize the prompt without loosing it when updating Cmder.

[jalovatt]

New user, not familiar with terminal stuff at all other than some mandatory DOS usage to play games under Windows 3.1 when I was a kid.

Like the OP, I'm used to a single-line prompt, so I tried the Lua example above. It worked, but it also removed all text coloring from the terminal. So I deleted the .lua file, but the coloring hasn't come back. I tried putting the file back and fiddling with the prompt it defines, but nothing I do makes a difference. Likewise, editing _init.bat_ doesn't seem to do anything.

How do I fix this and/or get what I was originally aiming for - single-line prompt with coloring?

I'm sure the problem here is one of those between-keyboard-and-chair deals. Cheers.

[noxasch]

For current version (i downloaded on 1 January 2019):

In C:\YOUR_PATH\cmder\vendor\ edit the _clink.lua_ file, just remove the "\n" in the string for cmder_prompt which in my case it was at line 50,

-- local cmder_prompt = "\x1b[1;32;40m{cwd} {git}{hg}{svn} \n\x1b[1;39;40m{lamb} \x1b[0m"
local cmder_prompt = "\x1b[1;32;40m{cwd} {git}{hg}{svn} \x1b[1;39;40m{lamb} \x1b[0m"
 -- local lambda = "λ"
local lambda = "$"

note: the commented one is the original one.

[daxgames]

@noxasch Not a good solution as it will be overwritten on update. Instead add the below to a file called %cmder_root%\config\my_prompt.lua:

function my_prompt_filter()
    cwd = clink.get_cwd()
    prompt = "\x1b[1;32;40m{cwd}{git}{hg}{svn}\x1b[1;30;40m{lamb} \x1b[0m"
    new_value = string.gsub(prompt, "{cwd}", cwd)
    clink.prompt.value = string.gsub(new_value, "{lamb}", "λ")
end

clink.prompt.register_filter(my_prompt_filter, 1)

[gabrielfsousa]

i'm trying to change the prompt on Version 1.3.11.843, like @noxasch and @daxgames but theres no change.... what i'm doing wrong ?

SORRY:
im using powerline that why was not change anything.

[Kotsuha]

The above my_prompt_filter() approach is great and I've successfully changed the "λ" symbol. However it makes non-ASCII path characters garbled because

clink.get_cwd() is returning a string which is differently encoded than what
clink.prompt.value expects.

as mentioned in https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/pull/1070.

If I cd to a non-ASCII path it looks like this

D:\PortableApps\Cmder (master)
★ cd "D:\Temp\あいうえお"

D:\Temp\?????
★

How can I solve this? I've looked into the %cmder_root%\vendor\clink.lua file (not familiar with Lua though) and figured maybe I need to cache the original cwd. But if modification to original file is needed then the benefit of creating a new file is gone.

Cmder Version 1.3.14.982