On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 at 16:09, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:

I don't want it permanent. this whole process is to deal with those
specific times I am working on a project in a very deep directory.

It seems like you're covered with just tweaking your PS1 but if you wanted more conditional behaviour, have a look at PROMPT_DIRTRIM (cf: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8428363)

If you want to only change the prompt for a specific directory, or set of directories, https://direnv.net/ is just the ticket (and already available from the Fedora repos.)