VCS info (Re: Call for good plugins list)

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 1,  7:29pm, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
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} I'm curious as to how you do use vcs_info.

The main thing is that I despise prompt_subst, so:

autoload -Uz add-zsh-hook
autoload -Uz vcs_info

vcs-info-v() { vcs_info; RPS1="$vcs_info_msg_0_" }
add-zsh-hook precmd vcs-info-v

zstyle ':vcs_info:*' actionformats \
   '%F{5}(%f%s%F{5})%F{3}-%F{5}[%F{2}%b%F{3}|%F{1}%a%F{5}]%f '
zstyle ':vcs_info:*' formats \
   '%F{5}(%f%s%F{5})%F{3}-%F{5}[%F{2}%b%F{5}]%f '

This is in combination with transient_rprompt so the VCS stuff vanishes
while a command is running.

I did borrow somebody's (yours?) +vi-git-post-backend-updown hook, but
had to hack it because some of my remote terminals don't do UTF-8.