powerlevel10k SHOW_ON_COMMAND integration

[henrebotha]

powerlevel10k has a neat feature where it conditionally displays certain prompt segments (e.g. kubectl status) only when a related command (e.g. kubectl) is being typed. Critically, this feature is smart enough to know that if alias kc=kubectl, then kc should also trigger the kubectl segment.

I'm wondering, is there a way for zsh-abbr to hook into this pre-expansion? As things stand, if I have abbr k=kubectl, and I type k, p10k doesn't notice, because k is not yet expanded; I'd have to type k , or k<enter>, or similar to expand k to kubectl, at which point p10k notices.

This is a super minor, niche case, but I'm curious.

[olets]

For a first check, does adding |k to POWERLEVEL9K_KUBECONTEXT_SHOW_ON_COMMAND in your ~/.p10k.zsh make p10k show kubectl status when you type k? If so, does it go away if you keep typing to make it ka?

[olets]

Got around to looking at the p10k feature!

To do this I believe you'd have to fork p10k. You'd add an elif to the if in this loop https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/blob/master/internal/parser.zsh#L178. Dunno the best position in the cascade of conditions. I'd start with last before the else. Not sure what the single-letter arrays are, but seems likely you could do what the aliases conditions do.

For the work: might be able to check each of the four abbreviation arrays (e.g. $ABBR_REGULAR_SESSION_ABBREVIATIONS[${(qqq)token}]). I think you could do that cheap check rather than calling abbr expand $token, because I don't think this scenario needs to account to prefixes… or does it?

Could get recursive, iterating over every word in the expansion. That might get slow.

[henrebotha]

In the strictest version of this, it would indeed need to account for prefixes. Suppose abbr klf='kubectl logs --follow', and we have watch as a prefix; then watch klf should show the kubectl segment because I'm about to do something with kubectl.

But honestly I think this whole idea is out of scope, for any value of "scope".

[olets]

Oh definitely agreed on the scope. But if you try it, let me know if it works. Who knows, maybe Roman would even add support for hooking into and extending p10k's suggestions