13482: Frank Terbeck: fix some prompt docs for vcs info

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7f8ce7d9c..ea85adeae 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-11-24  Peter Stephenson  <pws@csr.com>
+
+	* Frank Terbeck: users/13482: Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo: fix some prompt
+	docs for vcs info.
+
 2008-11-23  Barton E. Schaefer  <schaefer@zsh.org>
 
 	* users/13477: Completion/Unix/Command/_rm: call _files instead
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo b/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo
index 43338192a..4c2c7abc7 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo
@@ -362,12 +362,15 @@ zstyle ':vcs_info:*' formats       \
     '%F{5}(%f%s%F{5})%F{3}-%F{5}[%F{2}%b%F{5}]%f '
 zstyle ':vcs_info:(sv[nk]|bzr):*' branchformat '%b%F{1}:%F{3}%r'
 precmd () { vcs_info }
-PS1='%F{5}[%F{2}%n%F{5}] %F{3}%3~ ${vcs_info_msg_0_}'"%f%# ')
+PS1='%F{5}[%F{2}%n%F{5}] %F{3}%3~ ${vcs_info_msg_0_}%f%# ')
 
 Obviously, the last two lines are there for demonstration: You need to
 call var(vcs_info) from your var(precmd) function. Once that is done you need
 a tt(single quoted) var('${vcs_info_msg_0_}') in your prompt.
 
+To be able to use var('${vcs_info_msg_0_}') directly in your prompt like
+this, you will need to have the tt(PROMPT_SUBST) option enabled.
+
 Now call the tt(vcs_info_printsys) utility from the command line:
 
 example(% vcs_info_printsys