bulker overwrites PS1

[stolarczyk]

if I activate a crate, bulker creates a new prompt, which is awesome. But It also overwrites my previously set prompt configuration in PS1. Is it possible to prepend or append bulker prompt to whatever I have already set?

[mstolarczyk@MichalsMBP peppro](master): bulker-activate databio/peppro
Bulker config: /Users/mstolarczyk/bulker_config.yaml
Activating bulker crate: databio/peppro
databio/peppro|~/Uczelnia/UVA/code/peppro$

[nsheff]

Yes, it's possible to customize a shell prompt in the shell_prompt config option in your bulker config file.

However, this is broken at the moment, due to something broken about Yacman. See #46

[nsheff]

can you solve https://github.com/databio/yacman/issues/32 ?

[stolarczyk]

ok, will look into this

[nsheff]

Ok, after a long time I think the answer to this is to put your custom prompt in shell_prompt and just don't use quotes around it, or use singled quotes (better). And, use \b to refer to the bulker crate. So, for example add this to your bulker config:

  shell_prompt: '[\u@\h(\b) \W] $ '

[nsheff]

@stolarczyk can you see if this now solves your use case?

https://bulker.databio.org/en/dev/custom_prompts/

[nsheff]

you can also now use -p to not update prompts if you want to just keep using your default prompt.