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Problems with escaped close parens in ternary expressions in PROMPT string
- X-seq: zsh-workers 870
- From: Joseph Goldstone <joseph@xxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Problems with escaped close parens in ternary expressions in PROMPT string
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 10:36:50 -0800
I have my PROMPT variable set to:
PROMPT='%B%m%b%0(#. (root\).)%0(?.. (last code exit status was %?\)): '
When commands complete with a nonzero exit status, I get:
altair-4): foo
~
zsh: command not found: foo
altair-4 (last code exit status was 1\):
Whereas commands that complete with a zero exit status give me:
altair-4): echo foo ~
foo
altair-4):
~
I thought perhaps there's some reason why I would NOT have to escape the
first of the two adjacent closing parens, so I tried:
PROMPT='%B%m%b%0(#. (root\).)%0(?.. (last code exit status was %?)): '
With that change a nonzero exit status gives me:
altair-4): foo
~
zsh: command not found: foo
altair-4 (last code exit status was 1):
~
which is exactly what I want, but a zero exit status still gives me:
altair-4 (last code exit status was 1): echo foo
~
foo
altair-4):
~
I am presently seeing this on both NeXTSTEP 3.3 and IRIX 5.3, with both
systems running zsh 2.6-beta13.
This problem was not present on the IRIX 5.3 system before I upgraded the
zsh there to zsh-2.6beta13 -- it was running zsh-2.6-beta5 and didn't have
the problem. So has something changed in the ternary expression handling
code for PROMPT sequences since beta5 that would explain this problem?
Thanks.
--joseph
(ps: please email to me directly as I am no longer on zsh-users or zsh-workers.)
pps: the tilde characters you see are from RPROMPT='%B%U%~%u%b' -- that's
my homedir hanging out on the right hand edge of the screen, wrapping in
this email message.
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