From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Nebel <c.nebel@apple.com>
Cc: zsh-users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Processing "%?" in PROMPT?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:42:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMrm1BMEmqTNEB00CBwpXL-Rv9r6TGPjWasaBTiU+zOyqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2879A761-D4D3-44C5-8D54-D58D9E3F5EBF@apple.com>
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:28 PM Christopher Nebel <c.nebel@apple.com> wrote:
> My first attempt was to set PROMPT to ‘$(pretty-status %?)’
$? will work the way you want if it's the first command substitution
in PROMPT. The same goes for RPROMPT.
> I could use a precmd function to save $? in a global, but only if
> I could guarantee that it was called before anything else, and that’s
> not a promise I’m comfortable making.
$? (a.k.a. $status) and $pipestatus are guaranteed to work as you
expect when precmd hooks are called. It's quite common to stash them
into global variables there.
Roman.
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