From: Kannan Varadhan <kvaradhan3@gmail.com>
To: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>,
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: colorizing printfs
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 17:19:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7606614-3510-4e20-a2da-0e9e16a0605f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMpFktpOPyN2B1YAEaP1mETMJ7aR7oE48J3x18X1DvY0bg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/11/24 07:37, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM Mikael Magnusson<mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 2:54 AM Kannan Varadhan<kvaradhan3@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ~⦒printf '%s.%s.%s\n' "${(%):-%F{blue}%B}" "test" "${(%):-%b}${(%):-%f}"
>>> %B}.test.
>> You probably have a badly made / cargo culted precmd() function
>> active.
I am sorry, I did not follow this.
> That output is actually expected. The right curly must be escaped.
>
> printf '%s.%s.%s\n' "${(%):-%F{blue\}%B}" "test" "${(%):-%b}${(%):-%f}"
Yes, this works,
Is this something that I missed in the documentation?
Many useful, useable variants, thank you for these.
> However, it's easier to use `print -P`:
>
> print -P '%F{blue}%Btest%b%f'
>
> Or, when printing $var:
>
> print -rP '%F{blue}%B'${var//\%/%%}'%b%f'
>
> Alternatively:
>
> print -Pn '%F{blue}%B'
> print -rn -- $var
> print -P '%b%f'
>
> Another alternative:
>
> print -r -- ${(%):-'%F{blue}%B'${var//\%/%%}'%b%f'}
Kannan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-12 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-11 0:52 Kannan Varadhan
2024-05-11 14:26 ` Mikael Magnusson
2024-05-11 14:37 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-05-12 0:19 ` Kannan Varadhan [this message]
2024-05-12 6:44 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-05-13 20:53 ` Rick Bowen
2024-05-14 6:48 ` Stephane Chazelas
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