From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Sebastian Stark <sstark+zsh@mailbox.org>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic parameters for PROMPT_SUBST functions
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 02:58:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E0295958-2E53-46D0-9840-23988F2658C4@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200619063233.zybs27xvqp56t4p5@singold>
Hi Sebastian,
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 2:32 AM, Sebastian Stark <sstark+zsh@mailbox.org>
> wrote:
>
> 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 %?.
Yes, that is because the PROMPT_SUBST expansions (parameter, command,
and arithmetic) are done before the percent-escape sequences are
expanded.
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-19 6:32 Sebastian Stark
2020-06-19 6:58 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2020-06-19 10:56 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-19 17:08 ` Sebastian Stark
2020-06-20 11:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-21 15:17 ` Sebastian Stark
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