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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:03:06 +0200
From: Bernd Eggink <eggink@uni-hamburg.de>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: Probs with nested braces in PROMPT
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In-Reply-To: <000601bfe730$ee914ed0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:59:53PM +0400

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:59:53PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> >
> > PROMPT='%{^[[5;46m%}%m:%l %T %~${PROJECT:+
> > %{^[[31m[%}}$PROJECT${PROJECT:+]%{^[[30m%}}%#%{^[[0m%}'
> >
> 
> You do have promptsubst set, don't you?
> 
> What about
> 
> PROMPT='%{^[[5;46m%}%m:%l %T %~${PROJECT:+
> %{^[[31m[%\}}$PROJECT${PROJECT:+]%{^[[30m%\}}%#%{^[[0m%}'
> 
> (note, that `}' in %} are quoted). This seems to work. I suspect, why it
> happens, but I do not know code good enugh.

Thanks, this works. My first attempt was to quote both of the braces %\{
...  %\}, but that resulted in something like this:

    eggink3:2 13:01 ~/necht {[ecc]{%

Regards,
Bernd

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