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  <h1 id="usage">Usage</h1>
<p>The <code>hg prompt</code> command takes a single string as an argument and outputs it.  Here's a simple (and useless) example:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> hg prompt <span class="s2">&quot;test&quot;</span>
<span class="go">test</span>
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<p>Keywords in curly braces can be used to output repository information:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> hg prompt <span class="s2">&quot;currently on {branch}&quot;</span>
<span class="go">currently on default</span>
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<p>Keywords also have an extended form:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre>{optional text{branch}more optional text}
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<p>This form will output the text and the expanded keyword <strong>only</strong> if the keyword successfully expands.  This can be useful for displaying extra text only if it's applicable:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> hg prompt <span class="s2">&quot;currently on {branch} and at {bookmark}&quot;</span>
<span class="go">currently on branch default and at</span>

<span class="gp">$</span> hg prompt <span class="s2">&quot;currently on {branch} {and at {bookmark}}&quot;</span>
<span class="go">currently on branch default</span>

<span class="gp">$</span> hg bookmark my-book

<span class="gp">$</span> hg prompt <span class="s2">&quot;currently on {branch} {and at {bookmark}}&quot;</span>
<span class="go">currently on branch default and at my-book</span>
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<p>Take a look at the <a href="/hg-prompt/documentation/keywords/">keywords</a> documentation to see all the keywords <code>hg-prompt</code> supports.</p>


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author	Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
date	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:47:18 -0500
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