X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:38:39 -0600 From: Zach Gelnett To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Prompt issue within cygwin In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k0NJckSO016047 pls see: http://materm.sourceforge.net/docs/settitle.c On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. > > Two more notes: first, the Cygwin lists don't accept HTML email, as you no > doubt found out from the rejection notice, and second, please make sure > your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > > > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Again, . Thanks. > > > > Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > > > > > > > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > > > > . Thanks. > > > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Here is what i am seeing: > > > > > > > > > > > > v468929@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] > > > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > Also, ESC] doesn't look like a valid ANSI escape sequence. What > > > > > exactly are you trying to accomplish with your prompt? > > > > > > [snip] > > > If that was all you wanted, you could have set PS1 to '\u@\H \W>'. Your > > > prompt tries to do more than that. I'm still unsure of what the initial > > > sequence of non-printing characters in your prompt is for. > > > > Those characters work with mrxvt to cause the tab name to have the > > appropriate user@host value. > > Ah. Ok, that explains it. Good to know. Thanks. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." > "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in > that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" > -- 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/