How to add current date/time to clink/cmder prompt

Question

I'm a rather happy user of clink via the great cmder package. The only thing I miss is an easy way to set the command prompt to display the current date/time (and last exit code, history number, as in bash... etc).

Could someone point me to the right direction on how to do this?

Answer 1

Try this prompt settings (example only, it's show how you can call any console application inside "prompt printing"). Note! It works in ConEmu only.

prompt $p$s$e]9;7;"cmd /c echo (%DATE% %TIME%)"$e\$g

But, as Bob said, there is an easier way:

prompt $p$s$d$s$t$s$g

And for cmder you should edit the supplied init.bat as that defines the prompt settings.

Answer 2

The answer provided by Maximus is no longer valid for cmder 1.3+

You have to create a .lua file (for ex. my_prompt.lua) inside your cmder config folder with your customized definition (source).

Below my customization:

function custom_prompt()
  cwd = clink.get_cwd()
  prompt = "\x1b[1;32;40m{cwd} {git}{hg} \n\x1b[1;30;40m{time}\n{lamb} \x1b[0m"
  new_value = string.gsub(prompt, "{cwd}", cwd)
  add_time = string.gsub(new_value, "{time}", os.date("%x - %X"))
  clink.prompt.value = string.gsub(add_time, "{lamb}", "λ")
end

clink.prompt.register_filter(custom_prompt, 1)

And this is the resulting prompt

C:\
03/25/17 - 20:56:14
λ

You can find more customization options for the time output in the Lua manual

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update for comment reported error

function time_prompt()
    os.setlocale ("", "time")
    local cwd = clink.get_cwd()
    local prompt = "\x1b[1;32m{cwd} {git}{hg} \n\x1b[30m{time}\n{lamb} \x1b[0m"
    local new_value = string.gsub(prompt, "{cwd}", cwd)
    local add_time = string.gsub(new_value, "{time}", os.date("%x - %X"))
    clink.prompt.value = string.gsub(add_time, "{lamb}", "λ")
end

Answer 3

One line modification for cmder. Put it to cmder\config\my_config.lua

function my_prompt_filter()
    cwd = clink.get_cwd()
    prompt = "\x1b[1;32;40m{cwd}{git}{hg} $> \x1b[33;40m"
    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)

result:

C:\Users\user1 $>
C:\Users\user1 $> date
The current date is: 02.02.2018
C:\Users\user1 $>

Answer 4

None of the solutions here worked for me, so I ended up with adding the following line in my .bashrc:

alias myprompt='export PS1="\[\e]9;9;"\w"\007\e]9;12\007\]\[\033]0;$MSYSTEM:${PWD//[^[:ascii:]]/?}\007\]\[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[36m\]`__git_ps1`\[\033[0m\] \D{%T}\nλ "'

That last part \D{%T} is what shows the current time (don't care about the date, as usually I need to know how much time has ellapsed since I started a task).

Of course, this doesn't automatically change the prompt on all git bash terminals. You have to execute the myprompt command on the default prompt to change it. I tried to just do the above export inside the .bashrc file but I was getting an error. Maybe someone will have a better idea on how to get around that.