User-defined components

[ryanrhee]

Is there a way to add user-defined components?

[eendroroy]

Currently there is no option for that.

[betaboon]

@ryanrhee the easiest way right now is to add a section like this: https://github.com/eendroroy/alien/blob/master/modules/sections.zsh#L6

you can then refer to a section in your config by the text after the last _. eg. define a section called alien_prompt_section_foobar then use it in your config as foobar

[eendroroy]

@ryanrhee the easiest way right now is to add a section like this: https://github.com/eendroroy/alien/blob/master/modules/sections.zsh#L6

you can then refer to a section in your config by the text after the last _. eg. define a section called alien_prompt_section_foobar then use it in your config as foobar

That is modifying the original theme, right?

[betaboon]

@ryanrhee @eendroroy i guess it would also be possible to create a file (eg. my-alien-sections.zsh) that defines your custom alien_prompt_section_foobarand then source it before sourcing alien (with your zsh-plugin-manager eg antibody).

that seems to work as well

[eendroroy]

@betaboon May be we can create a configuration option for ALIEN_CUSTOM_SECTIONS_PATH like ALIEN_CUSTOM_THEME_PATH:

export ALIEN_CUSTOM_SECTIONS_PATH=/path/to/custom/sections

It will source all zsh files from /path/to/custom/sections

[ryanrhee]

Could also check a path by default? something like ${HOME}/.alien/custom/sections

[betaboon]

i dislike the idea of checking a path by default.

[betaboon]

@ryanrhee is your request solved by the provided information ?

[ryanrhee]

I'll try defining a custom section and using it my config.

will the alien_prompt_section_ prefix ever change?

[betaboon]

@ryanrhee i currently do not see any reason for the prefix changing. though it can obviously not be ruled out ;)

can this issue be closed ?

[ryanrhee]

yup, it can be closed.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:04 PM betaboon notifications@github.com wrote:

@ryanrhee https://github.com/ryanrhee i currently do not see any reason for the prefix changing. though it can obviously not be ruled out ;)

can this issue be closed ?

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