Show whether anything is stashed

[michaeldfallen]

Show whether anything is stashed

[tnguyen14]

+1 for this!

[cbandera]

+1
What kind of symbol would you use? Maybe an open box?
It could be as easy as:

bash_stash_status() {
  local number_stashes="$(git stash list | wc -l)"
  if [ $number_stashes -gt 0 ]; then
    printf " $number_stashes\x01\033[1;33m\x02␣\x01\033[0m\x02)"
  fi
}

[anaran]

What kind of symbol would you use? Maybe an open box?

How about = resembling a stack of stashed content?

[cbandera]

How about = resembling a stack of stashed content?

Yes, I like that. Do you happen to use zsh and could test this code before I create a pull request?

[michaeldfallen]

Nice idea. I'm always tempted to try using the combining diacritical marks to "draw" an icon. Something like:

Which I got through echo "\xE2\x87\x90\x01\xE2\x83\x9E\x02"

Seems like support on terminals is a bit flaky though.

[cbandera]

Seems like support on terminals is a bit flaky though.

It's not working for me with: echo -e "\xE2\x87\x90\x01\xE2\x83\x9E\x02" in the normal Ubuntu Terminal

[michaeldfallen]

eh, probably not a good idea, just a bit of fun.

[pas256]

This is a great idea

[eproxus]

How about "identical" to or "strictly equals"?

≡
IDENTICAL TO
Unicode: U+2261, UTF-8: E2 89 A1

≣
STRICTLY EQUIVALENT TO
Unicode: U+2263, UTF-8: E2 89 A3

[anaran]

@eproxus these don't seem to have HTML char entity equivalents, which might be nice for mappability.

How about this one?
⩦
⩦
⩦
⩦

[eproxus]

@anaran Well, there is:

≡
≡ ≡
≡
≡

Why is HTML character entity codes relevant?

Here are some more alternatives from that page:

⊟
⊟ ⊟
⊟
⊟

⊔
⊔ ⊔
⊔
⊔

⧉
⧉
⧉
⧉

[anaran]

@eproxus I like ≡ ≡

Having an HTML representation for the character can be useful for documentation later.

[c5f]

@lorensr this issue can be closed, yes?