From: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Length of %? in prompt
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:42:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020226184213.GA16659@stu163.keble.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202261023070.14523-100000@ns1.sodaware.com>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:26:09AM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>
> > I don't understand this 0 case though - is it a bug?
> >
> > ian@majestica:~% export PS1="%10>-->0--------%<< "
> 123456789
>
> There are only a total of 9 characters there, so no truncation is needed.
> You need one more hyphen after the zero to get 10 characters.
Whooops.
One more thing...as the first % escapes the second in
"%%1v>-->%?---------%<< " it looks like there is no way to change this
value on the fly without recreating the prompt - is this correct?
Thanks again
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-26 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 16:05 Ian Lynagh
2002-02-26 16:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-02-26 17:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-26 18:08 ` Ian Lynagh
2002-02-26 18:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-26 18:42 ` Ian Lynagh [this message]
2002-02-26 19:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-28 15:34 ` Ian Lynagh
2002-02-28 16:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-28 17:12 ` Ian Lynagh
2002-02-28 21:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-03-01 12:38 ` Ian Lynagh
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