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From: | "Mikael" <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice |
Date: | Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:51:20 +0100 |
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"Brian Dessent" wrote: > Mikael wrote: > >> Thanks Michael. I am using the CVS-version (dated early febraury) of >> Emacs. >> I removed the lines I added to my .bashrc and added what you showed to my >> .emacs. Now my bash shell inside emacs looks nice (and in color), but >> it's >> not perfect. Here it is: >> >> ]0;c:/cygwin/home/mikael/coding/Win32/show_styles/src >> mikael AT mindcooler c:/cygwin/home/mikael/coding/Win32/show_styles/src >> $ >> >> The first line doesn't look so good and it's basically repeating what's >> in >> the second line (the path). > > The first line above of PS1 is an escape sequence that tells the > terminal to change the window title to the given string. Emacs > apparently does not support that escape sequence, so you'll have to > modify your prompt. The Cygwin default is > > PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007\n\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]\n$ ' > > The part that sets the window title is "\033]0;\w\007", so you would > want > > PS1='\n\[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]\n$ ' > > Note that '\[' and '\]' are pseudo-escape sequences that tell bash that > the enclosed characters represent an escape sequence that the terminal > will interpret and not print. They are used so that bash will know to > not include those characters in calculating the cursor position. > > If you want to change the colors, the number N in "\033[Nm" is what to > modify. See google or > <http://www.dee.ufcg.edu.br/~rrbrandt/tools/ansi.html> for more details. > > Brian > Very nice Brian! Now it looks great! Thanks alot everyone for helping me out...now my list of outstanding issues, related or semi-related, to Cygwin got shorter! / M -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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