How to add current date/time to clink/cmder prompt
The answer provided by Maximus is no longer valid for cmder 1.3+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
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
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.