From a7bedd5320f0d6fba5d4179aace5ead1f42c459d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklas Heer Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 19:00:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] added documentation --- README.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c611c5d9..e92f29ae 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -205,6 +205,20 @@ To change the way how the current working directory is truncated, just set: POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_STRATEGY="truncate_from_right" # default behaviour is to truncate whole directories +You can also change the delimiter (the dots in between) which is used to truncate the working directory. This setting is optional. The default are 2 dots. + + # set the delimiter to an empty string to hide it + POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER="" + # or set it to anything else you want (e.g. 3 dots) + POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER="..." + +With this you could achive the truncate behaviour of the fish shell. Which turncates `/usr/share/plasma` to `/u/s/plasma` + + POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH=1 + POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER="" + POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_STRATEGY="truncate_from_right" + + In each case you have to specify the length you want to shorten the directory to. So in some cases `POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH` means characters, in others whole directories.