Using a percent sign in the PROMPT

[Phileosophos]

Today seems to be my day for questions. I would like to display the current memory load as a percent in my PROMPT. I can show the memory load easily enough, but I can find no way to force the display of a literal percent sign. Using any number of percent signs produces nothing visible, and I can find no way to escape one or show it otherwise. Help?

 

[rconn]

Phileosophos wrote:

> Today seems to be my day for questions. I would like to display the current memory load as a percent in my PROMPT. I can show the memory load easily enough, but I can find no way to force the display of a literal percent sign. Using any number of percent signs produces nothing visible, and I can find no way to escape one or show it otherwise. Help?

Use ^%^% (assuming that you're using the default escape character ^).

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[vefatica]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:06:32 -0500, Phileosophos <> wrote:

|Today seems to be my day for questions. I would like to display the current memory load as a percent in my PROMPT. I can show the memory load easily enough, but I can find no way to force the display of a literal percent sign. Using any number of percent signs produces nothing visible, and I can find no way to escape one or show it otherwise. Help?
|

Try this:

prompt `%%`
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- Vince

 

[Phileosophos]

Phileosophos wrote:


Use ^%^% (assuming that you're using the default escape character ^).

Rex Conn
JP Software

Excellent! Thanks! FYI, I find that using %%%% also seems to work.