RE: Prompt expansion, multi-job for

["Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>]

>
>     1) Let's say I'm in the /usr/local/src path at the moment.  Normally, if
> you use the %~ prompt expansion, it will expand to /usr/local/src - no
> surprises there.  What I'd like to do is trim each path element to one
> character unless it's the last path element, in which case it should be
> displayed to a maximum of, say, 15 characters.  eg, /usr/local/src should be
> displayed as "/u/l/src", /usr/local/src/linux would be displayed as
> "/u/l/s/linux", and /usr/local/src/linux-2.2.14+reiserfs+raid+ide might be
> displayed as "/u/l/s/linux-2.2.14...".  Is this possible with the current
> prompt expansion codes, or will I have to write up a function to do it, if
> it's possible to do at all?
>

In  the current zsh

bor@itsrm2% echo ${PWD//(#m)[^\\/]##\\//$MATCH[1]/}
/t/s/zsh-3.1.6-dev-14

But you'll have to clamp the last component at 15 chars yourself anyway ... so
your are better off writing your own fuction for it.

/andrej