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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with PROMPT_SUBST? (Was: VCS info (Re: Call for good plugins list))
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:23:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Z1yjRLWUCSr4VTSR0OEkmwEFwaz7Dy237ha4P1Ov05=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16D1FF19-CE8F-4A88-9AD0-1661BC3FD65F@larryv.me>

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 1:38 AM Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 1, 2017, at 5:50 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > The main thing is that I despise prompt_subst
>
> Why is that?

Mostly it's a matter of taste.  It introduces yet another set of
tokens that you have to escape to use literally in prompts, and I
don't think the prompt is an appropriate place to be running command
substitutions.  It means even more possible collisions on variable
names with unintended side-effects.   Obviously these are things that
can be avoided; I'd just rather not have to think about them.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-12  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-01 16:23 Call for good plugins list Sebastian Gniazdowski
2017-10-01 16:41 ` Ray Andrews
2017-10-01 18:54   ` Bart Schaefer
2017-10-01 19:29     ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-10-01 21:50       ` VCS info (Re: Call for good plugins list) Bart Schaefer
2017-10-01 22:16         ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-02-11  9:38         ` What's wrong with PROMPT_SUBST? (Was: VCS info (Re: Call for good plugins list)) Lawrence Velázquez
2020-02-12  5:23           ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2020-02-12  7:17             ` Mikael Magnusson

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