From f730f0f6045ff76a108abc53a27fd83f8edec171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ray <gitea@rayelliott.dev>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:44:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add prompt divider and update command for gitstatus

Introduced a function to draw a terminal-width divider with a timestamp
and updated the PROMPT_COMMAND to include this new function for better
visual separation in the terminal prompt.
---
 bashrc              | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 gitstatus-custom.sh |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bashrc b/bashrc
index 0667594..9ef4f28 100644
--- a/bashrc
+++ b/bashrc
@@ -125,11 +125,25 @@ function show_date() {
 
 export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
 
+# Function to draw a terminal-width divider line with timestamp
+function draw_prompt_divider() {
+  local width=${COLUMNS:-80}  # Use terminal width, fallback to 80
+  local timestamp=$(date '+%H:%M:%S')
+  local prefix="$timestamp ├"
+  local prefix_length=${#prefix}
+  local line_length=$((width - prefix_length))
+  
+  # Print timestamp + junction + line to fill remaining width
+  printf '%s' "$prefix"
+  printf '%.0s─' $(seq 1 $line_length)
+  echo
+}
+
 # Load custom gitstatus configuration
 [ -f "$HOME/.config/bash/gitstatus-custom.sh" ] && . "$HOME/.config/bash/gitstatus-custom.sh"
 
-# Set PS1 with time, user@host, directory on first line, git status on second line, prompt on third line
-PS1='\t \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\] \[\033[1;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\n${GITSTATUS_PROMPT:+         $GITSTATUS_PROMPT\n}\[\033[01;$((31+!$?))m\]\$\[\033[00m\] \[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]'
+# Set PS1 with user@host, directory on first line, git status on second line, prompt on third line
+PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\] \[\033[1;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\n${GITSTATUS_PROMPT:+         $GITSTATUS_PROMPT\n}\[\033[01;$((31+!$?))m\]\$\[\033[00m\] \[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]'
 
 # If there are multiple matches for completion, Tab should cycle through them
 bind TAB:menu-complete
diff --git a/gitstatus-custom.sh b/gitstatus-custom.sh
index dcfad5b..9513701 100644
--- a/gitstatus-custom.sh
+++ b/gitstatus-custom.sh
@@ -60,5 +60,5 @@ function my_gitstatus_prompt_update() {
 
 # Start gitstatusd and set up prompt command
 gitstatus_stop && gitstatus_start -s -1 -u -1 -c -1 -d -1
-PROMPT_COMMAND=my_gitstatus_prompt_update
+PROMPT_COMMAND="draw_prompt_divider; my_gitstatus_prompt_update"
 shopt -s promptvars
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