Re: hostname in prompt

Re: hostname in prompt

[Markus Wilke]

Hi everyone,

obviously this problem is a specific one in my installation of zsh, if other
people running solaris 2.6 are troublefree.
In the meantime, I created a workaround: I use `hostname` instead of %m,
which works fine for me.

Thanks for your help,
Markus


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Re: hostname in prompt

[Markus Wilke]

>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I updated my zsh-3.1.9 to 4.0.2 on a Solaris 2.6 box, but now my prompt
is
>> not working correctly any more. I have the hostname in the prompt, and
now
>> instead of the hostname "SunOS" appears (regardless on what solaris
machine
>> zsh runs).
>>

>I have the hostname successfully appearing in my prompt.  In my .zshrc
there is

>PROMPT="%t-%m-%?-%h-%# "
>if [ ${+CLEARCASE_ROOT} = 1 ]; then
>    VIEWNAME="${CLEARCASE_ROOT:t}"
>    RPROMPT=" [${VIEWNAME}]-%60<\<**<%~"
>else
>    RPROMPT=" %80<\<**<%~"
>fi

>So at the left margin I have
>- time of day
>- hostname
>- exit status of last cmd
>- history entry number
>- % or #

>and at the right margin I have the tail of the current directory name,
prefixed
>with the ClearCase view I'm in inside [..] if I am actually inside a view.

>Are you using the hostname command rather than %m to try to do this?

>--
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No, I am using %m:

RPROMPT=$'%{\e[1;31m%}[%m]%{\e[0m%}'      # prompt for right side of screen

(the escape sequences are for colouring the prompt).

BTW, of course the command hostname works fine. My prompts also worked fine
in zsh-3.1.9.
Debugging zsh is quite hard for me, because of the hash table stuff inside,
so I didn't get any clues in this way.

Any more ideas?

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hostname in prompt

[Markus Wilke]

Hello everyone,

I updated my zsh-3.1.9 to 4.0.2 on a Solaris 2.6 box, but now my prompt is
not working correctly any more. I have the hostname in the prompt, and now
instead of the hostname "SunOS" appears (regardless on what solaris machine
zsh runs).

Had anybody else encountered this phenomena?

Thanks for any help with this matter.

========================================================================
  Markus Wilke
  Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, FG Theorie Elektromagnetischer Felder
  Schlossgartenstr. 8, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  fon:  +49 6151 162361                           fax: +49 6151 164611
  mail: wilke@temf.tu-darmstadt.de                www:     www.temf.de
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Re: hostname in prompt

[Richard Curnow]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:32:11PM +0200, wilke@temf.tu-darmstadt.de wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I updated my zsh-3.1.9 to 4.0.2 on a Solaris 2.6 box, but now my prompt is
> not working correctly any more. I have the hostname in the prompt, and now
> instead of the hostname "SunOS" appears (regardless on what solaris machine
> zsh runs).
> 

I have the hostname successfully appearing in my prompt.  In my .zshrc there is

PROMPT="%t-%m-%?-%h-%# "
if [ ${+CLEARCASE_ROOT} = 1 ]; then
    VIEWNAME="${CLEARCASE_ROOT:t}"
    RPROMPT=" [${VIEWNAME}]-%60<\<**<%~"
else
    RPROMPT=" %80<\<**<%~"
fi

So at the left margin I have
- time of day
- hostname
- exit status of last cmd
- history entry number
- % or #

and at the right margin I have the tail of the current directory name, prefixed
with the ClearCase view I'm in inside [..] if I am actually inside a view.

Are you using the hostname command rather than %m to try to do this?

-- 
Richard Curnow---by day : SuperH Core Architecture at STMicroelectronics
curnowr@bristol.st.com---------www.superh.com-------------www.st.com----
and by night >>---richard.curnow@go.to---http://go.to/richard.curnow/---

Re: hostname in prompt

[Peter Stephenson]

Richard Curnow wrote:
> I have the hostname successfully appearing in my prompt.

I just recompiled with Solaris 2.6 and it seems to be OK, too.

> and at the right margin I have the tail of the current directory name,
> prefixed with the ClearCase view I'm in inside [..] if I am actually
> inside a view.

Aha.  Do you have any completions for ClearCase...?  We're thinking about
moving on from CVS and I don't suppose I'll be able to resist the
temptation of making completion functions if we do.

-- 
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CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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Re: hostname in prompt

[Eric Smith]

According to Markus Wilke on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:32:11PM +0200:
| Hello everyone,
| 
| I updated my zsh-3.1.9 to 4.0.2 on a Solaris 2.6 box, but now my prompt is
| not working correctly any more. I have the hostname in the prompt, and now
| instead of the hostname "SunOS" appears (regardless on what solaris machine
| zsh runs).
| 
| Had anybody else encountered this phenomena?

I have:

[ $HOSTNAME = 'apple.fruitcom.com' ] && {
PS1="[%B%n%b@%m %c] %B `echo $WINDOW`%b $ "
}
[ $HOSTNAME = 'plum.fruitcom.com' ] && {
PS1="[%n@%B%m%b %c] %B`echo $WINDOW`%b $ "
}

the first emphasises the $USER and the second the $HOST.
In an xterm the emphasis can show up in color.

-- 
Eric Smith