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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:16:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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To: Joshua Symons <vmcore@mysun.com>
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Joshua Symons wrote:

> preexec () {
>         print -Pn "\e]0;%m:%l   -   ${(z)1} \a"
> }
> [(ichirou:152:pts/33)~ %] printf '^[[32;40mwith quotes\n'
> [32;40mwith quotes
> ' with quotes

Your specific problem there is that the titlebar escape sequence appears
literally in the command that you're trying to put into the titlebar, so
strange things happen.  I missed that before.  Try ${(qVz)1}.