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Re: zsh 3pre2: carriage return in prompt

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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@xxxxxxxx>
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: zsh 3pre2: carriage return in prompt
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 12:47:45 -0400
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In-reply-to: <199607111355.PAA02107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
References: <199607111355.PAA02107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Zoltan Hidvegi on Thu, 11 Jul 1996 wrote:
> But really using $(echo "\n") is a quite expensive solution. It
> requires a fork().  You can just simply write
> 
> PROMPT='[%h] [OLD: $OLDPWD] [CURRENT: %~]
> '
> 
> If you use csh_junkie_paren, turn it of, or put a backslash at the
> end of the line.


Strange, this will work at the commandline, but not if I put it in the .zshenv.

I've turned off the csh-stuff and even tried the backslash, I don't know what else to try, so for now I'm still using an old zsh....

System: NeXT 3.2 m68k

TjL


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