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From: Phil!Gregory <phil_g@pobox.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: $? being clobbered?
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:35:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030714173555.GA4352@mithrandir.aperiodic.net> (raw)

I'm having a problem with zsh, and am not sure if it's a bug or a
feature.  If I have a program executed in my prompt, its return status
clobbers the value of $?, which isn't really what I want.  Example:

> PROMPT='> '
> perl -e 'exit 42'
> echo $?
42
> PROMPT='%{$(echoti cub 80)%}> '
> perl -e 'exit 42'
> echo $?
0

Is there some way to fix this?

(zsh 4.0.7, Sven.)

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-14 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-14 17:35 Phil!Gregory [this message]
2003-07-14 17:57 ` Michał Politowski
2003-07-14 19:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-07-14 19:51   ` Phil!Gregory

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