Re: Invisible PROMPT2

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)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
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