On 03/25/2018 10:36 AM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> I think the trick was to put non-printing characters (like escape 
> sequences) inside of "%{…}" sequences. That tells Zsh not to use 
> characters in that sequence as printable characters when calculating the 
> prompt width. I believe the same thing applies to both PROMPT and RPROMPT.

Thank you for the confirmation.

> Thanks Grant, that's what I was hunting for: %{ ... %}.  Interesting that 
> it effects RPS1, I'd have thought that it sorta just attaches itself to 
> the right margin and that the width of PS1 wouldn't matter to it that 
> much, but I suppose that's naive, the entire prompt is worked out in 
> one calculation.

You're welcome.  I'm glad that you got it working.

Depending on window width, prompt & command length, Zsh will remove the 
RPROMPT when the command gets too close.  As such Zsh needs to know the 
printed width of the RPROMPT just like the (L)PROMPT.



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