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From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: man zsh output wanted
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Tom Kirkpatrick wrote:
>Also i'm having trouble with the prompt_command thing...
>I tried defining $precmd
>
>precmd=~/scripts/m

You want to create a *function* called precmd, not a parameter:

function precmd {
  ~/scripts/m
}

-zefram