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Re: invoking a procedure to print the prompt

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: invoking a procedure to print the prompt
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:48:56 +0100
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Dave Yost wrote:
> I need my prompt to contain one thing in one situation and another 
> thing in another situation.
> 
> It occurs to me that a more clean and powerful way to implement a 
> custom prompt would be via a procedure rather than via the 
> traditional prompt string variable substitution syntax.
> 
> I can't find a way to do this in the zsh man page.

It should be as simple as setting up a precmd function that defines
PS1.  If you are up-to-date you can use a suitable precmd_functions
element.

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