Re: Prompt width miscomputed with conditional substring

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:29 PM, ZyX <kp-pav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 07.04.2015, 00:09, "Bernie Innocenti" <bernie@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> My zsh prompt is:
>>
>> local ret_status="%(?:%{$fg_bold[green]%}%%:%{$fg_bold[red]%}%%%s)"
>> PROMPT="%{$fg[red]%}%n%{$reset_color%}@%{$fg[blue]%}%m:%{$fg[yellow]%}%~
>> %(1j,$fg[cyan][%j],)${ret_status}%{$reset_color%} "
>>
>> When I have background jobs, the prompt becomes 3 characters longer and
>> command-line editing seems to wrap at the wrong column.
>>
>> This is also reproducible with zsh built from git (zsh-5.0.7-374-gd4f50f2).
>
> This is expected because you have not wrapped `$fg[cyan]` properly after %(1j. This is not a bug.
>
> I would highly suggest to drop and forget colors function. If you need colors just use %F{green}…%f to highlight with green. Specifically read man zshmisc, section “SIMPLE PROMPT ESCAPES”, subsection “Visual effects”.
>
> If you think that $fg[cyan] is useful outside of prompt note that you may use ${(%):-%F{green}} (though `$fg[cyan]` is better when you don’t have to write it as `%{$fg[cyan]%}` and can’t just write `%F{green}` because you are not in prompt).

It's probably worth noting that inside double quotes, you need to
quote the closing brace of %F with \} or it will end the ${ brace as
well.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson