Re: command substitution with control chars?

[Atom Smasher <atom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Micah Cowan wrote:

> Atom Smasher wrote:
> > got it!
> >
> > it was partly that my script outputs the percentage of battery charge, 
> > complete with a trailing "%". of course this needed to be escaped, but 
> > i think the missing "setopt promptsubst" was the bigger problem. i'd 
> > feel stupid about it, but there doesn't seem to be any reference to 
> > that in the zshall man page (zsh-4.3.2).
>
> There is; but the option is actually termed PROMPT_SUBST (options are 
> case-insensitive, underscores don't matter).
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so now i feel stupid ;)

my PAGER=most, so upper/lower case doesn't matter, but the underscore made 
me miss it.


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