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