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From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: showing 'talk' status in PROMPT
To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer)
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Bart Schaefer wrote:
>		setopt localoptions nullglob
>		local tty
>		tty=( ${~TTY:s/dev/de[v]/}(I) )

local tty
tty=( ${TTY}(|)(IN) )

You must use `(|)' because `()' would be treated as a function definition.
Nevertheless, you only get one copy of the pathname.

-zefram