Re: Count only visible characters?

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joke de Buhr wrote:
> Since you are using prompt expansion you should always escape the color codes 
> with "%{...%}". That's the only way zsh can calculate the length of the prompt 
> line correctly. Otherwise the cursor will not be positioned at the end of the 
> visual end.
>
> testing="%{%F{green}%}hello"

No, with %F{...}...%f he does *not* need to wrap things in %{...%}.

Regards, Frank