From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id QAA29597 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:13:47 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA15048; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 02:04:43 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 02:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199607110601.CAA00860@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 02:01:31 -0400 To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: zsh 3pre2: carriage return in prompt Reply-To: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary X-URL: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat Resent-Message-ID: <"Avhb42.0.eg3.tZ9vn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/280 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu I had been using this as my prompt: PROMPT='[%h] [OLD: $OLDPWD] [CURRENT: %~] $(echo "\n")' That gave me the information I wanted, and a carriage return at the end of the line, so my commands always began at the left margin. This no longer works with 3.pre2. Has something changed that makes this impossible? All I want is something that looks like this: [localhost] [OLD: /old/path] [CURRENT: ~current] X where X represents where the cursor would be located Thanks! TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat