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Re: Weird behaviour with certain PS1-sequences

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@xxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Weird behaviour with certain PS1-sequences
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:57:33 +0000
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On Sep 27, 10:14pm, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> Subject: Weird behaviour with certain PS1-sequences
> 
> If I have this in .zshrc or give this in command line, shell goes to endless
> loop. Terminal is all blank and Ctrl-c and Ctrl-z does not help at all.
> 
> export PS1='%h|%l|%n@%m:%/ %# '

I can't reproduce this on Linux.  I've tried various prompt-related setopts
with no change in the behavior.

Please tell us more about your configuration.

> But this works fine:
> 
> export PS1='%h|%l|%n@%m:%/%# '

What does the prompt look like in that case?

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Weird behaviour with certain PS1-sequences
  - From: Dan Nelson
- Re: Weird behaviour with certain PS1-sequences
  - From: Juhapekka Tolvanen

References:
- Weird behaviour with certain PS1-sequences
  - From: Juhapekka Tolvanen

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