No soap on the global prompt: % \ls -ld /etc/z* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 15:10 /etc/zsh-dist/ I moved global rc files aside when I installed. The diffs indicate a misinterpretation of the quoting of "[". "]" and "?". Is there some kind of locale-specific interpretation of backslash-quoting? - Vin On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:39 PM Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:03 AM Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > > > > Vin Shelton wrote on Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:14 -0400: > > > Thanks, Bart. That fixes four of the five failures. All except this > one: > > > > > > ../../../src/zsh-2020-07-07/Test/E01options.ztst: starting. > > > This test hangs the shell when it fails... > > > Pattern match failed, line 1: > > > > Well, it's my patch, but I can't reproduce the failure. I'm guessing > > it's the prompt at the start that causes it, but I'm not sure why it'd > > be printed in Vin's setup but not in mine. > > Prompt setting in an /etc/z* file? > > I can't reproduce that one either. >