On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Sep 27, 10:14pm, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > Subject: Weird behaviour with certain PS1-sequences
> > 
> > If I have this in .zshrc or give this in command line, shell goes to endless
> > loop. Terminal is all blank and Ctrl-c and Ctrl-z does not help at all.
> > 
> > export PS1='%h|%l|%n@%m:%/ %# '
> 
> I can't reproduce this on Linux.  I've tried various prompt-related setopts
> with no change in the behavior.
> 
> Please tell us more about your configuration.

Output of reporter-script comes as an attachment.
 
> > But this works fine:
> > 
> > export PS1='%h|%l|%n@%m:%/%# '
> 
> What does the prompt look like in that case?

tukki% export PS1='%h|%l|%n@%m:%/%# '
2|pts/34|juhtolv@tukki:/home/juhtolv% 

"tukki" is name of the computer.
 

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