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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: positioning of RPS1
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:36:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0bc40f21-c104-4f11-1581-86a93adbfd62@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <111b6659-b7cd-7be7-3b59-cdb1be9c2f94@eastlink.ca>

I think the trick was to put non-printing characters (like escape 
sequences) inside of "%{…}" sequences. That tells Zsh not to use 
characters in that sequence as printable characters when calculating the 
prompt width. I believe the same thing applies to both PROMPT and RPROMPT.


Thanks Grant, that's what I was hunting for: %{ ... %}.  Interesting that it
effects RPS1, I'd have thought that it sorta just attaches itself to the right
margin and that the width of PS1 wouldn't matter to it that much, but I suppose
that's naive, the entire prompt is worked out in one calculation.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-25 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-24 18:44 Ray Andrews
2018-03-24 23:20 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-25 16:36 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2018-03-25 18:42   ` Grant Taylor

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