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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:58:11 -0800
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Comments: In reply to Sven Guckes <guckes@math.fu-berlin.de>
        "color prompts and $' evaluation - zsh-3.1.4 required?" (Mar 27,  8:49pm)
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Subject: Re: color prompts and $' evaluation - zsh-3.1.4 required?
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On Mar 27,  8:49pm, Sven Guckes wrote:
> Subject: color prompts and $' evaluation - zsh-3.1.4 required?
> The ZSH FAQ from 23rd March 2000 mentions how to set your prompt
> to get colors.  It says that evaluation with "$'" is required.
> I found that this works with zsh-3.1.4 but not with zsh-3.1.2.

It doesn't work with 3.0.x either, obviously ... for those versions
you can use $(print ...) instead.