🍿 Configure zsh partial line ending with PROMPT_EOL_MARK

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Have you ever used zsh as your shell and wondered what a highlighted % sign at the end of an output means?

It's zsh's default way to show that the output did not end with a new line. Zsh starts the prompt on a new line and to give the user an indication if that is not included in the output, it by default prints an highlighted % symbol.

This can be controlled with PROMPT_EOL_MARK environment variable:

export PROMPT_EOL_MARK=''

By adding this to your zsh shell config file, the % symbol disappears.