Subject: Re: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap
From: Randall R Schulz <[email-masked]>
To: Sandeep Tamhankar <[email-masked]>, "David A. Cobb" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Cygwin General MailList <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 18:27:07 -0700

Hi,

Here's a little more on the promt business. It has proved popular with 
fellow nerds in my office:

My PS1 for any terminal (emulator) that supports it (xterm, xterm-color, 
vt100, vt102, vt220, cytwin, at least) is this:

PS1=$'\[\e]0; \u :: \W (\w)\a\]\!> '
# Note:
#  This sequence:
#  ESC]0;
#      ^ zero
#  Starts the title setting sequence. Everything from there to
#  the CTRL-G (also "\a" within $'...') is put in the window title.
#  Some terminal emulators (notably TeraTerm) put a pretty stingy
#  limit on how much they'll display, but you don't have to limit
#  the length you attempt to put there

I don't mind the information typically put into prompts, but I _hate_ to 
have it literally in the prompt!

Randall

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