prompt weirdness

prompt weirdness

[Jeff Shipman]

I've got the following prompt setting:

PROMPT="%n@%m:%B%30<...<%~%b%(!.#.>) "

and it works great when I'm my normal
user (looks like: jeff@mother:~> ), but
when I su to root, which I have the following
function for:

su() { ZDOTDIR=/u/jeff command su "$@" -c zsh }

I am not seeing the # at the end. Instead, I
get only a single space after my home directory.

Why is this happening?

Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy@nmt.edu
Computer Science Major    ICQ: 1786493
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy

Re: prompt weirdness

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 20,  2:59pm, Jeff Shipman wrote:
} Subject: prompt weirdness
}
} PROMPT="%n@%m:%B%30<...<%~%b%(!.#.>) "
} 
} su() { ZDOTDIR=/u/jeff command su "$@" -c zsh }
} 
} I am not seeing the # at the end. Instead, I
} get only a single space after my home directory.
} 
} Why is this happening?

Only one possibility comes to mind:  The "zsh" found when su does its
path search is not the one you expect.  If, for example, /bin/zsh is
a 3.0.x version, and that's what "su -c zsh" finds and executes, then
you'd get exactly the behavior you describe, because 3.0.x doesn't have
the %(!...) test.

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