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Re: Bug#444583: zsh: precmd not executed before a new prompt is displayed when a job exists
- X-seq: zsh-workers 23883
- From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Bug#444583: zsh: precmd not executed before a new prompt is displayed when a job exists
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:52:10 +0100
- Cc: Bas Zoetekouw <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>, 444583-forwarded@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <20070929152845.GA23884@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Organization: CSR
- References: <20070929151035.19446.15860.reportbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20070929152845.GA23884@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:28:45 -0400
Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:10:35PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > Zsh's man page says: "precmd Executed before each prompt."
> > However, it doesn't seem to be executed in the following situation:
> >
> > - start xeyes in the background (xeyes &)
> > - kill the xeyes window
> > - the zsh then displays something like "[1] + done xeyes" and a new
> > prompt. Before this prompt, the precmd command doesn't seem to be
> > executed.
> >
> > This situation is a bit annoying for be, because I use precmd to put
> > the number of background jobs in the xterm title. However, when I
> > kill one of these backgorund applications, the xterm title isn't
> > updated currently.
>
> Could someone clarify the documentation here?
How about this?
Index: Doc/Zsh/func.yo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/func.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 func.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/func.yo 10 Nov 2006 09:59:27 -0000 1.15
+++ Doc/Zsh/func.yo 1 Oct 2007 09:40:01 -0000
@@ -188,7 +188,9 @@
findex(precmd)
vindex(precmd_functions)
item(tt(precmd))(
-Executed before each prompt.
+Executed before each prompt. Note that precommand functions are not
+reexecuted simply because the command line is redrawn, as happens, for
+example, when a notification about an exiting job is displayed.
)
findex(preexec)
vindex(preexec_functions)
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> Software Engineer
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