From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk>, pumilia@est.it
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: A job signaller
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:19:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981029121953.A7145@emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810291358.NAA23600@diamond.tao.co.uk>; from "Zefram" on Thu Oct 29 13:58:23 GMT 1998
In the last episode (Oct 29), Zefram said:
> Paolo Pumilia wrote:
> >Is there a way to put a mark within the prompt string to
> >inform the user that jobs are still running from that shell?
> >(e.g +/-: "+" for running or stopped jobs; "-" for no jobs)
>
> I use something like this:
>
> precmd () {
> if jobs % >& /dev/null; then
> psvar=("")
> else
> psvar=()
> fi
> }
> PS1="%(1v:+:-)> "
Note that a side-effect of this is that an "exit" will not warn you
that you have jobs running. The "jobs" comand in the precmd() function
clears the variable that would cause the warning to be printed.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-29 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-29 13:36 Paolo Pumilia
1998-10-29 13:58 ` Zefram
1998-10-29 18:19 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
1998-10-29 14:16 ` Alain Caron
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