Re: Fwd: Re: %N in prompt shows "_zsh_highlight_call_widget" on Ctrl-L instead of e.g. "/usr/bin/zsh" or "-zsh" since recently (#414)

[Axel Beckert <abe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 04:32:30PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 09:59:49AM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > On Feb 7,  8:48am, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > } Everytime I press Ctrl-L in my xterm, %N inside my prompt shows
> > } _zsh_highlight_call_widget instead of e.g. /usr/bin/zsh or -zsh
> […]
> > In what circumstances would you expect to need %N in PS1?  That is,
> > the reason to use any %-expando is to display information that will
> > change after the prompt is assigned.  If there is no case in which
> > you would expect %N to return something different, then you should
> > not need to use it.
> 
> You're right. The main issue is probably that I wrote that part years
> ago and was surprised that its behaviour changed. But I can't remember
> anymore why I've chosen %N over $0.

I now know again…

> Will replace it with $0 and see if that works out as expected.

That's worse: Now the prompt _always_ shows
"/home/abe/.zsh/zsh.d/15-prompt" (which is the sourced file where the
PS1 assigning happens) instead of e.g. "/usr/bin/zsh". So that needs
some more fine-tuning.

$ZSH_NAME seems close, except that it doesn't show "su" if the shell
was spawned by using "su" (neglectable) and that it doesn't show the
leading dash if it's a login shell.

What I was looking for seems to be $ZSH_ARGZERO. So far that works
fine. I hope, it's backwards compatible to at least 4.3.9 from Debian
7 Wheezy. :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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