Re: New-line in prompt

[Phil Pennock <phil@athenaeum.demon.co.uk>]

Typing away merrily, Owen M. Astley produced the immortal words:
> I am trying to get a new line (\n) in a prompt (actually I only want the
> new line if the current one is too long).  Has anybody got any idea about
> how to do this?  %{\n%} works but, as the man page says, it shouldn't
> change the cursor position (for obvious reasons if you use it).

How about using a print in the precmd special function?
If you want the normal prompt escapes in it, use the -P option to print.
precmd is called before every prompt.

% function precmd { print -P Funky-%~ }
Funky-~
% echo

Funky-~
% cd /usr
Funky-/usr
% 

Hope this helps.
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