3.1.2: What's going on here?

3.1.2: What's going on here?

[Steve Talley]

I've just compiled zsh 3.1.2 for Solaris 2.5.1 on sparc and i386.  It
seems to run fine, but I constantly get the error "zsh: not an
identifier".  Example:

 5 % echo $USERNAME
zsh: not an identifier: $USERNAME
 5 % echo $ZSH_VERSION 
zsh: not an identifier: $ZSH_VERSION
 5 % cd /tmp
zsh: not an identifier: /tmp
 5 % ls /etc
zsh: not an identifier: /etc
 5 % echo hello
hello
 6 % cd tmp

What's going on here?  The last two statements do work.

Any help is appreciated,

Steve

Re: 3.1.2: What's going on here?

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> I've just compiled zsh 3.1.2 for Solaris 2.5.1 on sparc and i386.  It
> seems to run fine, but I constantly get the error "zsh: not an
> identifier".  Example:
> 
>  5 % echo $USERNAME
> zsh: not an identifier: $USERNAME
>  5 % echo $ZSH_VERSION 
> zsh: not an identifier: $ZSH_VERSION
>  5 % cd /tmp
> zsh: not an identifier: /tmp
>  5 % ls /etc
> zsh: not an identifier: /etc
>  5 % echo hello
> hello
>  6 % cd tmp
> 
> What's going on here?  The last two statements do work.

You probably have something wrong in the precmd or prompt.  Try to remove
stuff from your startup files until the problem disappears.  An example
which can cause such things:

hzoli /l/src/zsh-RCS/Src % local '$USERNAME'
zsh: not an identifier: $USERNAME
hzoli /l/src/zsh-RCS/Src % local '/tmp'     
zsh: not an identifier: /tmp
hzoli /l/src/zsh-RCS/Src % local 'hello'
hzoli /l/src/zsh-RCS/Src % 

Zoli