Merge pull request #1445 from davidpfarrell/soft-separator

Adds soft-separator support to powerline main + multiline themes

themes/powerline/README.md

@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ You can change the format using the following variable:
 
 The time/date is printed by the `date` command, so refer to its man page to change the format.
 
+### Soft Separators
+
+Adjacent segments having the same background color will use a less-pronouced (i.e. soft) separator between them.
+
 ### Segment Order
 
 The contents of the prompt can be "reordered", all the "segments" (every piece of information) can take any place. The currently available segments are:

themes/powerline/powerline.base.bash

@@ -175,10 +175,15 @@ function __powerline_left_segment {
   local params=( $1 )
   IFS="${OLD_IFS}"
   local separator_char="${POWERLINE_LEFT_SEPARATOR}"
+  local separator_char_soft="${POWERLINE_LEFT_SEPARATOR_SOFT}"
   local separator=""
 
   if [[ "${SEGMENTS_AT_LEFT}" -gt 0 ]]; then
-    separator="$(set_color ${LAST_SEGMENT_COLOR} ${params[1]})${separator_char}${normal}"
+    if [[ "${LAST_SEGMENT_COLOR}" -eq "${params[1]}" ]]; then
+      separator="$(set_color - ${LAST_SEGMENT_COLOR})${separator_char_soft}${normal}"
+    else
+      separator="$(set_color ${LAST_SEGMENT_COLOR} ${params[1]})${separator_char}${normal}"
+    fi
   fi
   LEFT_PROMPT+="${separator}$(set_color - ${params[1]}) ${params[0]} ${normal}"
   LAST_SEGMENT_COLOR=${params[1]}

themes/powerline/powerline.theme.bash

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 PROMPT_CHAR=${POWERLINE_PROMPT_CHAR:=""}
 POWERLINE_LEFT_SEPARATOR=${POWERLINE_LEFT_SEPARATOR:=""}
+POWERLINE_LEFT_SEPARATOR_SOFT=${POWERLINE_LEFT_SEPARATOR_SOFT:=""}
 
 USER_INFO_SSH_CHAR=${POWERLINE_USER_INFO_SSH_CHAR:=" "}
 USER_INFO_THEME_PROMPT_COLOR=${POWERLINE_USER_INFO_COLOR:=32}