Re: Prompt truncating, redux

[Timothy Stone <registrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Jul 1, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Jul 1, 11:35am, Timothy Stone wrote:
> }
> } I figured out the expectations of zsh v. tcsh, save "set  
> ellipsis"...
> } zsh seems to be able to do this, but I can't sort out the syntax
> } using '%<...<%/'
>
>
> What you appear to want is conditional syntax, not truncation syntax:
>
> 	%4(c:...:)%3c
>
> will show elipses if %c is at least 4 path elements long, nothing  
> if it
> is less than 4 elements long, followed by the last 3 elements of %c.

Perfect! Thank you. The `zsh' community is fantastic!

Tim

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"This Satan's drink [coffee] is so delicious...
 we shall cheat Satan by baptizing it."
 Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605)


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