Calling all PROMPT experts

Started by Cowboy, March 03, 2018, 10:11:22 AM

I am having trouble getting PROMPT to read %E (encumbrance).   The display shows everything else but not the encumbrance.  Here is my prompt;
prompt    %h/%H   %v/%V   %t/%T   %w   %E   %s  %p

I have tried \n command thinking the PROMPT was too long.  That didn't work.
Ideas?
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I'm not an expert but first I'd check if you can just set your prompt to %E.  Try it through telnet as well as your main client.  I think 99% of the time people have problems like this, their client is parsing something and eating their input in some subtle way.
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Yes. PROMPT %E shows light.  Now what? 
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Have you tried rearranging the order (e.g. put %E before %w)? I know that shouldn't matter, but if %E works by itself, then it seems like that alone isn't the issue.
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It works on no position and now it doesn't work as the lone command following the prompt.
I'd rather be lucky than good.

March 03, 2018, 06:16:55 PM #5 Last Edit: August 05, 2018, 03:32:10 AM by Molten Heart
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https://youtu.be/ZCOSPtyZAPA

Sounds like a bug and something you should try to replicate, log, and send in?

I'm using zmud and I got it to work by turning off parsing.  It seems to work.  I have no idea what parsing is or isn't.
I'd rather be lucky than good.

I use Zmud.  Parsing is needed for your aliases to work.

Sorry about that. I am using cmud on this computer.
I'd rather be lucky than good.

March 03, 2018, 07:02:36 PM #10 Last Edit: August 05, 2018, 03:32:00 AM by Molten Heart
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"It's too hot in the hottub!"

-James Brown

https://youtu.be/ZCOSPtyZAPA

Turned the parsing back on and works fine now.  Thanks to all of you.
I'd rather be lucky than good.