From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5936 invoked from network); 21 Jun 1997 15:28:21 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Jun 1997 15:28:21 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA20882; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:22:01 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:22:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <5229.199706211525@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: forwarded message To: hniksic@srce.hr (Hrvoje Niksic) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:25:37 +0100 (BST) Cc: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr In-Reply-To: from "Hrvoje Niksic" at Jun 21, 97 05:20:36 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]9518.21 X-Phase: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (100% of Full) X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers X-Personality: INTJ X-This-is-not-HTML: Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"yVoYh2.0.C65.P6_gp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3271 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >Zefram writes: >> The %{...%} is working just fine. The problem is sequences like >> "\033", which have no special meaning in PS1. > >What is the issue with these anyway? I'd think them trivial to code, >given all the other stuff Zsh contains. They would be trivial, but I do not recommend doing it because it would break things. % is the only special character in PS1, and it is good to keep the rule this simple. -zefram