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From: "Zefram" <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: pumilia@est.it
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: A job signaller
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:58:23 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810291358.NAA23600@diamond.tao.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19981029143654.A4064@wigner.cstc.org> from "Paolo Pumilia" at Oct 29, 98 02:36:54 pm

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:+:-)> "

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-29 14:05 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 [this message]
1998-10-29 18:19   ` Dan Nelson
1998-10-29 14:16 ` Alain Caron

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