Re: zsh prompt not updating until first 'chdir'

[Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org>]

On May 1, 2004, at 7:32 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (May 01), Timothy J. Luoma said:
>> Just back on the list after a long absence (exiled to Windows for a
>> few years, just bought a Mac).
>
> There is a very nice cygwin port of zsh :)

Sssh!!  It was one of the reasons I said I had to get a Mac ;-)

Actually I just installed Cygwin not too long ago, but it just made me 
want to get a real Unix machine again.


>> I'm very rusty on my ZSH skills, and hope someone can help.  I have a
>> $PROMPT setup in .zshenv
>>
>> setprompt () { PROMPT="
>>
>> ---------------------------------%t/%T 
>> ---------------------------------
>> %S[OLDPWD: $OLDPWD]
>>      [PWD: %~]%s
>> $SHORT_HOST> "
>> }
>
> Why not just set PROMPT to
>
> "
> ---------------------------------%t/%T 
> ---------------------------------
> %S[OLDPWD: $dirstack[1]]
>      [PWD: %~]%s
> $SHORT_HOST> "
>
> in your .zshrc directly, setopt prompt_subst, and forget about
> resetting it every time you cd?

PROMPT="
---------------------------------%t/%T ---------------------------------
%S[OLDPWD: $dirstack[1]]
      [PWD: %~]%s
$SHORT_HOST> "

works great EXCEPT that OLDPWD doesn't get updated

TjL