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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:32:33 +0200
From: Sebastian Stark <sstark+zsh@mailbox.org>
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Subject: Dynamic parameters for PROMPT_SUBST functions
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Hello,

I am trying to have a function call in my prompt that gets the return 
value of the last command as a parameter (%?).

However I am having trouble to get this right. Instead of an actual 
number, what is handed to the function is the literal string %?.

Is there anything I can do better or is this just not possible?

I could probably use $? in the function itself, but that sounds a bit 
fragile to me because I maybe get a different value of $?.

In this example I write the parameter to a file, because if I just print 
it it would get printed as a literal %? and expanded later and thus hide 
the issue I am facing


% zsh -f
% x(){print $1 >>/tmp/lll}
% setopt PROMPT_SUBST
% PROMPT=$'$(x %?) %m%# '
  % cat /tmp/lll
%?


Thanks for any hints.

Sebastian