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Re: Prompt percent completion for truncations

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Prompt percent completion for truncations
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:42:10 -0700
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/49873>
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:16 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a feeling this is my fault, but I think the statute of
> limitations has expired for this particular crime.

Hah!  Yes.

> I'm pretty sure I was unaware of the intricacies of $comp_state[quote]
> back then, and did most of my testing inside single quotes.

The quoting actually doesn't matter, same thing happens with
backslash, single, or double quotes.

> > There is also this:
> > % PS2=%\<
> > replacement string
> > % PS2=%\[\<
> > number

That seems to be coming from
  _message -e ternary-prompt-expression number
which I think arises from treating as a ternary anything that doesn't
match the preceding list of specs, but I'm not certain.

References:
- Prompt percent completion for truncations
  - From: Bart Schaefer
- Re: Prompt percent completion for truncations
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

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