From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Help fix Zsh shell command prompt error or stranee
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:54:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2adb205-073e-c72f-f4fd-3925e8ab44eb@tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMpzOYiUkYUgJdS7X8puHfQoYVZk_30A=mPa68N1K=fd_Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/20/23 1:30 AM, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> In the vast majority of cases one can replace %{...%} with a
> first-class %-sequence.
I question the "vast" quantifier.
> For example, instead of %{\033[31m%} one canuse %F{red}.
Zsh has many SIMPLE PROMPT ESCAPES and CONDITIONAL SUBSTRINGS IN PROMPTS
-- see zshmisc and / or zshall manual pages. But they all seem to be
specific to what appears on the prompt line(s).
This starts falling apart when you print terminal control characters /
escape sequences used to alter the terminal window title or re-define
the default terminal background / foreground colors and / or resize /
reposition the terminal window itself.
N.B. there is very much so a difference in re-defining the terminal's
current default vs specifying colors in the actual output.
Zsh has the most feature rich prompt support that I remember seeing.
But even that doesn't cover all the things that I do. Hence why Zsh
includes the %{...$} and even the %G to alter how Zsh does or doesn't
count characters output to the terminal.
Grant. . . .
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-21 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-19 0:35 Budi
2023-08-19 2:01 ` Grant Taylor
2023-08-20 6:30 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-08-20 10:50 ` Budi
2023-08-20 17:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-08-20 15:54 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2023-08-22 6:26 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-08-23 4:27 ` Grant Taylor
2023-08-19 16:09 ` Bart Schaefer
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