Can I change zsh prompt using direnv

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1

Hi,

I’ve installed direnv but I don’t know if I can change my zsh prompt with shellHook

Currently, I’ve this that doesn’t seem to work:

{pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}}:
with pkgs;
let
gems = bundlerEnv {
name = "blog";
gemdir = ./.;
};
in mkShell {
buildInputs = [ gems gems.wrappedRuby ];
shellHook = ''
PS1="%m" # or export PS1="%m" 
bundler config set --local force_ruby_platform true
'';
}
2

I don’t think you need shellHook to change the prompt. I think setting PS1 like this should work, but never tried it:

mkShell {
  PS1 = "<whatever>";
}
3

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4

this seems to work for any random variables

mkShell {
test="test";
}

direnv: export ... +shell +shellHook ... +test ...

but not for PS1

mkShell {
PS1 = "%m";
}

direnv: export ... +shell +shellHook ...  ...
5

I’ll take a look, but does it work with direnv ?

6

What I would do at this point is search the direnv codebase for PS1.

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7

You may be right, I’ll try. Thanks :slight_smile:

8

Yes, they have a direnv module: Configuration | Starship

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