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Re: $? being clobbered?

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From: Michał Politowski <mpol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: $? being clobbered?
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:57:27 +0200
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:35:56 -0400, Phil!Gregory wrote:
> I'm having a problem with zsh, and am not sure if it's a bug or a
> feature.  If I have a program executed in my prompt, its return status
> clobbers the value of $?, which isn't really what I want.  Example:
> 
> > PROMPT='> '
> > perl -e 'exit 42'
> > echo $?
> 42
> > PROMPT='%{$(echoti cub 80)%}> '
> > perl -e 'exit 42'
> > echo $?
> 0
> 
> Is there some way to fix this?

You can hack around this with
$(R=$?;echoti cub 80;return $R)

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Michał Politowski -- mpol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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