Prompt not loading in zsh

[michaeldfallen]

Prompt not loading in zsh

[ColinTheRobot]

Thanks @michaeldfallen. I finally got it working, forgot the need for single quotes rather than double and needed to call setopt PROMPT_SUBST

[monguin61]

I had this same problem while trying to get started using zsh. It looks like the $ needs to be escaped with just %, not /, so the following is (almost) working for me:

%$(git-radar --zsh --fetch)

"Almost", because this results in output like the following:

%{ git:(𝘮 34 ⇄ 65 feature/AUD-1140) 2A

I'm not sure why that %{ is present at the beginning.

[michaeldfallen]

My PROMPT setting is here: https://github.com/michaeldfallen/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/prompt.zsh#L20

Can you try something like that?

export PROMPT=$'$(git-radar --zsh --fetch)'

where the $' style of quotes seems to prevent execution of the contents.

[ColinTheRobot]

Hmmm, I got it work for a second (actually a second) following the conversation issue 28

now though sourcing the file just repeats the bare unexecuted prompt

.zshrc only contains the following resulting in the above.

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.git-radar
export PROMPT="$PROMPT\$(git-radar --zsh --fetch) "

[michaeldfallen]

That's because you are appending git-radar to the $PROMPT. So the second time you source ~/.zshrc you append git-radar to $PROMPT which was $PROMPT with git-radar appended.

The best way to get it to work is to have a single definition of export PROMPT. Here is mine:

michaeldfallen/dotfiles/prompt.zsh:

export PROMPT=$'$(ret_status)$(directory_name)$(git_radar) '

Those functions build each part of the prompt. Remember that the ~/.zshrc is just a shell script. It will execute each time you source it. Thus if you try to do any appending to any variables you are going to run in to problems on the next execution.

[acarltonsmith]

and needed to call setopt PROMPT_SUBST

Setting setopt PROMPT_SUBST also fixed issues for me, is this worth mentioning in the docs?