Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010704072236.0242b638@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 07:24:26 -0700 To: "David A. Cobb" , Sandeep Tamhankar , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010704101732.02dfba70@mail> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010703174151.0279f238@pop3.cris.com> <3B425069.6040200@Interwoven.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010703173051.030d7a90@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed David, Isn't _what_ a bug? I have no trouble with line wrap, including backspacing from a wrapped line back to the line on which typing began. With or without readline expansions having been applied. I experience no troubles whatsoever, and have not since I got the prompt strings worked out to properly use \[ ... \]. Randall At 07:19 2001-07-04, David A. Cobb wrote: >At 7/3/01 08:47 PM (Tuesday), Randall R Schulz wrote: >>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 > >Yes! Works as advertised and it's a thing of beauty. > >But isn't it still a bug in bash (or bash's in-built subset of readline)? > > >>I don't mind the information typically put into prompts, but I _hate_ to >>have it literally in the prompt! >> >>Randall > >David A. Cobb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/