Re: how to update RPROMPT each time a key is pressed

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Jun 2025 21:04:13 -0700

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On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM Trevor Avant <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The effect of this command is that my RPROMPT gets set to ABC, but only after I have executed the command

I suppose this should be considered a bug, but reset-prompt only
redraws the prompt if there was one before it was called.  I imagine
this is meant as an optimization so it doesn't have to re-fetch the
value of the variable if it was never set.  So all you need to do is
add

RPROMPT=''

to your .zshrc, probably right after the "zle -N self-insert" in your sample.