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Comments: In reply to "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org>
        "zsh prompt not updating until first 'chdir'" (May  1, 11:53am)
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On May 1, 11:53am, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
}
} chpwd () { setprompt }
} 
} Can someone remind me what I have to do to get this to update as soon as I  
} login?

I always just but a call to chpwd directly after the definition of chpwd in
my startup files.  There's no magical reason you can't call chpwd yourself.