Prompt not updating - OSX - zsh

[michaeldfallen]

Prompt not updating - OSX - zsh

[olyckne]

Same for me on OSX El Capitan.

[michaeldfallen]

Probably your zsh config isn't set correctly to re-execute everytime the prompt rerenders. My .zshrc prompt part is here: dotfiles/zsh/prompt.zsh#L11.

The important part is the:

export PROMPT=$'$(foo)'

part. The $' ensures that Zsh re-executes the functions on render. I think alternatively you can do:

export PROMPT="\$(foo)"

The \ would escape the $ and so prevent the function from being executed until Zsh evals the PROMPT on render.

[peteringram0]

I was seeing this issue also. +1 for the fix above

[olyckne]

I just copy pasted from the readme:
export PROMPT="$PROMPT$(git-radar --zsh --fetch) "

escaping the $ did work:
export PROMPT="$PROMPT\$(git-radar --zsh --fetch) "

[dsandstrom]

Thanks the quick reply. Sounds like you have found a fix. Unfortunately,
I won't be able to confirm until Monday.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015, 8:10 AM Mattias Lyckne [email protected]
wrote:

I just copy pasted from the readme:
export PROMPT="$PROMPT$(git-radar --zsh --fetch) "

escaping the $ did work:
export PROMPT="$PROMPT$(git-radar --zsh --fetch) "

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[michaeldfallen]

@olyckne ahh, I've messed up the readme. OK, I'll close this issue and open a fresh one to describe the problem. Afk at the moment but I'll rewrite it tonight.