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Comment by strunz | Hacker News Reader

Is there a reason xonsh doesn't honor the PS1 variable from bash to keep your terminal prefix? Or is there a way to customize xonsh's?

Example:

  10:54:01 foo@bar:~/scripts/xonsh$ xonsh
  foo@bar ~/scripts/xonsh $ # no time prefix

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If you go to [http://xonsh.org/tutorial.html#environment-variables] and scroll down to the table, you can see how to change the prompt :)

Thanks, doesn't look like you can use anything that isn't in the supported keywords though (like date/time)

It looks to me like you can.

> PROMPT: The prompt text, may be str or function which returns a str.

If you need non-built-in values in your prompt, just set PROMPT to a function, and call something like `date` within the function. Use `%` to format `date`’s output into a template string, and then pass that template string to `xonsh.environ.format_prompt` to get the final value to return from the function.

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