Re: Preexec & Printf

[Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:45:52PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Joshua Symons wrote:
> 
> > I had seen q in the modifier list @
> > http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/zsh_13.html#SEC45
> > I don't see V and z in the modifier list, are they documented?
> 
> Unfortunately that's still the 3.0 -- or perhaps it's 3.1.6 --
> documentation.  You need to read the docs that came with your zsh
> distribution if you want accurate information.

No, it is the 4.0.3 documentation. The reason that V and z are not in
the list of modifiers is that they are parameter expansion flags so
are listed further down in the documentation. #SEC47 or 13.3.1 if
looking on the web page.

As for the original question, I'd have thought it'd be easier to
break up the print statement in preexec to avoid it interpreting
any back-slashes in $1. e.g:
preexec() {
  print -Pn "\e]0;%m:%l - "
  print -rn "${(V)1}"
  print -n "\a"
)

It still needs the V flag for special characters but shouldn't need
any quoting.

Oliver
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