From: Wolfgang Hukriede <whukriede@ifm.uni-kiel.de>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Why can't I set PS1?
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:47:44 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199907051847.UAA08645@sally.ifm.uni-kiel.de> (raw)
Yes, it was exactly this. They (Suse GmbH) managed to define in
/etc/profile (which is sourced by zshrc):
precmd ()
{
if test "$UID" = 0; then
PS1="%m:`pwd -r` # "
else
PS1="%n@%m:`pwd -r` > "
fi
}
I sent them a bug-report.
Many thanks, fabulous!
Wolfgang.
Peter Stephenson wrote:
> It may be the same problem someone else had a couple of weeks ago. On some
> system, the function precmd is set to restore the prompt before every
> single command, which is lunacy. You can probably just `unfunction precmd'
> and set your own prompt, if that's the problem.
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1999-07-05 18:47 Wolfgang Hukriede [this message]
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1999-07-04 19:12 Wolfgang Hukriede
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