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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:53:11 -0600
From: Zach Gelnett <zachg99 AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Prompt issue within cygwin
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That was precicesly my issue.  Thank you very much, both issues (tab
complete and dup > entries) are resolved!

FYI, I'm just trying to have a prompt that says:

username AT hostname workingdir>

this is because i login to multiple machines and use tabbed windows
(available within mrxvt) to do this.  i find having this prompt makes
it quite easy to keep track of what env i'm logged into and where i'm
at.


Have a great day!!

On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote:
>
> > Here is what i am seeing:
> >
> > v468929 AT TRD-CAX40JXD ~> >
> >
> > the duplicate ">" is the issue.  Here is my PS1:
> >
> > \[\033]61;\u@\H\007\u@\H \W>
> >
> > as you can see, only a single ">"
> > [snip]
>
> You have a bug in your PS1 value.  Bash uses \[ and \] to delimit
> non-printable sequences in the prompt.  So, your PS1 should at least be
>
> \[\033]61;\u@\H\007\]\u@\H \W>
>                    ^^
> Note the closing '\]'.
>
> Also, ESC] doesn't look like a valid ANSI escape sequence What exactly are
> you trying to accomplish with your prompt?
>         Igor
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