Re: what is the effect of a percentage sign (%) as last character on the command line

[Peter <vmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/22/2010 03:27 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jan 21, 11:21pm, Peter wrote:
> }
> } p% zsh -v
> } ( lot of output )
>
> Er, well, yes, that output is what was important.
>    
Ok, sorry, I got it, in fact, my .zshrc was still active after zsh -f ( 
because this didn't clear the previous settings ) and after zsh -l in a 
fresh shell
I found the bug:

I had  in .zshrc

case $TERM in
    (xterm*|rxvt|mrxvt)
    print -Pn "\e]0;%n@%m: $1\a"
    ;;
  esac

apparently , the $1 caused the problem, I replaced it with ~% and now 
the shell behaves as expected:

case $TERM in
    (xterm*|rxvt|mrxvt)
    print -Pn "\e]0;%n@%m: %~\a"
    ;;
  esac

I take it as an exercise for 2010 to understand why the first version 
causes the erroneous behavior (;-

Thanks a lot for you hints.

Peter