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Re: Problems with escaped close parens in ternary expressions in PROMPT

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: joseph@xxxxxx (Joseph Goldstone)
Subject: Re: Problems with escaped close parens in ternary expressions in PROMPT
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 21:21:43 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199603291836.KAA22874@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Joseph Goldstone" at Mar 29, 96 10:36:50 am

In ternary expressions, close parens can no longer be escaped with \.
The \ is treated as a normal character, and the close paren ends the
ternary expression.  You can get a literal ) by using the new %)
sequence.  (If I were designing this from scratch, ) would be taken
literally, and %) would close the ternary.  Unfortunately it's too late
for that; this solution breaks the least code.)

-zefram

References:
- Problems with escaped close parens in ternary expressions in PROMPT string
  - From: Joseph Goldstone

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