Re: %B%~%b bug in $PROMPT in 3.1.5 ?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 31, 12:09pm, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
} Subject: %B%~%b bug in $PROMPT in 3.1.5 ?
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} Note the following, where $PWD = PWD (literally) in some cases
} 
} USER: (tjl) HOST: (localhost) TTY: (ttyp1) HIST#: (1760)
} [OLDPWD: /] [PWD: ~PWD]

This happens because many parameters that used to be "special" in 3.0.5
became nonspecial in 3.1.5 (another ksh compatibility thing), including
PWD and OLDPWD.  This has the side-effect of making them susceptible to
the autonamedirs option, and introduced several other bugs as well.

There were patches posted in zsh-workers articles 4589, 4596, and 4971
(the one in 4596 is mainly interesting because 4971 expects it in order
to replace it with a different fix).

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