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That would be cool, but how would you condense the information enough that it's both useful and doesn't take up 2/3 of a line?

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I might be a heathen, but my PS1 is as long as it wants to be, and ends with \n$

I feel like I should hate this...

But I don't. I may steal this idea later, than there would be a whole 2 of us!

That's a great old-school idea. I used to run it that way but forgot.

I have also started adding a time stamp to the second, so that when I run long commands and come back later in a tmux session I can see when it finished.

> how would you condense the information enough that it's both useful and doesn't take up 2/3 of a line?

There's a method that takes 0 space: just change the color of the prompt symbol depending on the weather status (sunny, cloudy, raining, snowing).

It’s provides different formats, I was using this one in the past from Powershell

invoke-restmethod wttr.in/?format=4

…and I think it was quite compact

Emojis? For the current weather, a single emoji could convey quite a lot; e.g. a snowflake for sub-60 weather (I have a low tolerance for cold), a sun for 60-80, fire emoji for 80+...

Now, I don't know if anyone truly needs the weather in their terminal prompt, but it is doable.

perhaps the RPROMPT would be better. i usually use it to show time %T.

curl 'wttr.in/?format=%c'

see the readme here for all options:

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

Microcharts or sparklines are another option. I've seen a few implementations along these lines for shell prompts / shell use.

This might be useful for temperature, humidity, wind, preciptitation, and similar measures, either as quantities or timelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline

https://github.com/deeplook/sparklines

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