Re: Bug#494098: zsh: Prompt expansion of %~ seems broken.

[Duncan Sinclair <Duncan.Sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Aug 2008, at 2:31 pm, Clint Adams wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:19:37AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > > > Expansion of %~ seems to have been broken.  This is the behaviour  
> > > > I see:
> > > >
> > > >  ~: print $PS1
> > > >  %~:
> > > >  ~: print -P %~
> > > >  ~
> > > >  ~: cd Desktop
> > > >  /home/magnus/Desktop: print -P %~
> >
> > ~ grep magnus /etc/passwd
> > magnus:x:1000:1000:Magnus Therning,,,:/home/magnus/:/bin/zsh
>
> Beats me.  Anyone have ideas?


I'd guess things might work better if your home directory was '/home/ 
magnus', without the trailing slash.

Cheers,  Duncan.


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