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

On 1/23/24, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

fwiw, you can do things like %F{%5v}hello or %(3V.%B.) to make things
dynamic without using promptsubst or updating PS1 in precmd, but you
do have to have all the actual formatting in PS1 then.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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