Prompt problem in zsh 4.3.17

Prompt problem in zsh 4.3.17

[Manfred Lotz]

Hi there,
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}~/ 


Colors are fine, just the _cwd} is a bit odd.


Anything I could do?


-- 
Thanks, 
Manfred

Re: Prompt problem in zsh 4.3.17

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Manfred,

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}~/ 
> 
> Colors are fine, just the _cwd} is a bit odd.

Indeed. I can reproduce this on Debian Wheezy. It's though fixed in
later versions of zsh, i.e. will no more happen in Debian Jessie (the
next Debian Stable Release).

> Anything I could do?

Not really a nice solution, rather a short hack:

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.

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Re: Prompt problem in zsh 4.3.17

[Frank Terbeck]

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.


Regards, Frank

Re: Prompt problem in zsh 4.3.17

[Manfred Lotz]

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