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Re: Why are prompt expansions of %v sequences quoted in bindkey style?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Why are prompt expansions of %v sequences quoted in bindkey style?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:15:43 -0800
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 10:44 AM Marlon Richert
<marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> However, the quoting seems to make it impossible to use $psvar for anything involving control characters.

That's correct.  Anything involving control characters would also
require %{...%} or %G to specify the occupied screen width.

> Is there no way to work around this?

As Roman mentioned, the usual way is to use precmd to update prompt values.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Why are prompt expansions of %v sequences quoted in bindkey style?
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

References:
- Re: Why are prompt expansions of %v sequences quoted in bindkey style?
  - From: Roman Perepelitsa
- Re: Why are prompt expansions of %v sequences quoted in bindkey style?
  - From: Marlon Richert

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