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

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Aug 11,  1:31pm, Clint Adams wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Bug#494098: zsh: Prompt expansion of %~ seems broken.
> }
> } On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:19:37AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> } > >>
> } > >>   ~: cd Desktop
> } > >>   /home/magnus/Desktop: print -P %~
> } > >>   /home/magnus/Desktop
> } > >>   /home/magnus/Desktop: cd ..
> } > >>   /home/magnus: print -P %~
> } > >>   /home/magnus
> }
> } Beats me.  Anyone have ideas?
>
> It's the trailing slash in the value of the home directory in passwd:
>
>> ~ grep magnus /etc/passwd
>> magnus:x:1000:1000:Magnus Therning,,,:/home/magnus/:/bin/zsh
>
> [[ /home/magnus/ != /home/magnus ]] so $HOME is not being recognized as
> a prefix of any subdirectory.

Ah, yes indeed!  Removing that extra slash at the end fixed it.
Thanks, and sorry for raising a bug that so clearly was a user-error
;-)

/M
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