Re: Invisible PROMPT2

On 2019-Nov-13, David Fetter wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 03:06:08PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2019-Nov-13, David Fetter wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:47:01AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> > > > > How about a circumfix directive (like the existing %[ ... %])
> > > > > that replaces everything inside with whitespace, but keeps the width?

> > This seems way too specific to me.  I like the "circumfix" directive
> > better, because it allows one to do more things.  I don't have any
> > immediate use for it, but it doesn't seem completely far-fetched that
> > there are some.

> So something like %w[...%w] where people could put things like PROMPT1
> inside?

Hmm, (I'm not sure your proposed syntax works, but let's assume that
it does.)  I'm saying you'd define
\set PROMPT1 '%a%b%c '
\set PROMPT2 '%w[%a%b%c %w]'

and you'd end up with matching indentation on multiline queries.

I'm not sure that we'd need to make something like this work:
  PROMPT1="%w[$PROMPT1%w]"
which I think is what you're saying.


We already have "%:PROMPT1:" but that expands to the literal value of
prompt1, not to the value that prompt1 would expand to:

55432 13devel 11214=# \set PROMPT2 'hello %:PROMPT1: bye'
55432 13devel 11214=# select<Enter>
hello %[%033[35m%]%> %:VERSION_NAME: %p%[%033[0m%]%R%#  bye

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