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RE: colors & tab completion

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From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Daniel Lyons'" <fusion@xxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: colors & tab completion
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:22:40 +0400
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> 
> PROMPT="${fg[magenta]}%n${fg[white]}@${fg[green]}%m ${fg[blue]}%C \
> ${fg[white]}%(#.=>.->) "
...
> anyway, that all works fine.  the problem is that when one presses
> tab multiple times to activate automenu, this is what gets
> displayed:
> 
> "username@host directory -> filename.ext1                     ext2"
> 




You need to tell zsh that these are escapes (and not counted in prompt
length calculation):

%{...%}
     Include a string as a literal escape sequence.  The string within
     the braces should not change the cursor position.  Brace pairs can
     nest.

i.e. you need

PROMPT="%{${fg[magenta]}%}...

-andrej

References:
- colors & tab completion
  - From: Daniel Lyons

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