it's still doing it, but "it" isn't what i thought it was

it's not the PS2 prompt being used, it's the parts of PS1 that have to be
evaluated
are simply not being evaluated: the $(date '+%H:%M') and the \w

when my PS1 is "$(date '+%H:%M') /w > " what winds up showing is the "> "

so there appears to be an evaluation of PS1 being skipped...

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 1:25 PM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > when i set PS1 to '$(date "+%H:%M") \w> ' in my ~/.bashrc i get a bash
> > prompt with current time of day when i hit enter, current PWD, a
> > greater than sign, and a space
> >
> > just enter "echo $PS1" to see how yours is set
> >
> > echo $TERM returns xterm
> >
> > in bash the PS2 prompt is for when you are inside some functioning
> > process but it needs input
>
> Aha, you are talking about bash.
>
> I don't know how bash decides to show $PS2 and how Vim can cause that.
> I also cannot reproduce the problem.  Perhaps someone can look into it.
>
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