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Subject: Re: PATCH: Files in prompt
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 from Jaime Medrano at "Mar 3, 2000 10:49:12 am"
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:46:24 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

Jaime Medrano wrote:
>	I' ve developped a patch that allows to include the content of a file
>inside the prompt. The content is evaluated every time the prompt is
>displayed so that if the file changes, the prompt also changes.

Does this look anything like the result of having "$(<file)" in the
prompt (with PROMPT_SUBST set), or "%v" after doing "psvar[1]=$(<file)"
in precmd?

-zefram