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Re: A job signaller

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From: "Zefram" <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pumilia@xxxxxx
Subject: Re: A job signaller
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:58:23 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <19981029143654.A4064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Paolo Pumilia" at Oct 29, 98 02:36:54 pm

Paolo Pumilia wrote:
>Is there a way to put a mark within the prompt string to
>inform the user that jobs are still running from that shell?
>(e.g +/-: "+" for running or stopped jobs; "-" for no jobs)

I use something like this:

precmd () {
  if jobs % >& /dev/null; then
    psvar=("")
  else
    psvar=()
  fi
}
PS1="%(1v:+:-)> "

-zefram

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