Re: Prompt problem in zsh 4.3.17

[Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de>]

Hi Frank,
Thanks to you and Axel for your answers.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:41:34 +0200
Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:

> Axel Beckert wrote:
> [...]
> > Manfred Lotz schrieb am Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:33:51AM +0200:
> >> I'm on a Debian system where trying to check out predefined prompts
> >> gives me this:
> >> 
> >> prompt fade yellow
> >> █▓▒░manfred@myserver█▓▒░ Thu Sep 18 11:32:31am 
> >> _cwd}~/ 
> [...]
> > Edit /usr/share/zsh/functions/Prompts/prompt_fade_setup as root and
> > change in line 34 %F{fadebar_cwd} to %F{$fadebar_cwd} (a dollar sign
> > is missing).
> >
> > In case there should be a security update of zsh in Debian Wheezy,
> > you may need to redo this.
> 
> Better yet: Copy 
> 
>    /usr/share/zsh/functions/Prompts/prompt_fade_setup
> 
> to
> 
>    /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/prompt_fade_setup
> 
> And put the fix into that file. On debian,
> /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions is the first entry in $fpath and
> thus entries from it will override any other files. Therefore a file
> in there would survive package upgrades as well.
> 
> 


Yes, it would be better to copy and fix the copy. 

Thanks again, Manfred