Re: command substitution with control chars?

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> It sounds like you just need to put your escape sequences inside %{ %} 
> pairs?
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then i wind up getting colored "%{" and colored "%}" in the prompt, and 
things are still hosed. maybe there's a way to do it, but i haven't 
figured it out yet...

basically, i'm taking this idea <http://swicked.net/pages/bat_mon.html> 
and trying to convert it from linux to bsd and from bash to zsh. i've got 
a script that outputs battery status, and uses different colors to display 
the output depending on the status... now to get the output into my 
prompt...

anyway, it seems that if the output of the script includes the zsh escape 
sequences it doesn't work as expected.


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