X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:50:51 -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 k0NMox1m020668 On 1/23/06, Zach Gelnett wrote: > 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" > > > I do have one final question. If I set PS1 like this: PS1="\[\033]61;\w\007\]\u@\h:\w\\$ " Everything works great, no issues at all, what is expected is what is displayed. Now, when i make only a slight modification as such: PS1="\[\033]61;\u@\H\007\]\u@\h:\w\\$ " all the sudden i have a duplicate space after my prompt as in: v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD:~$ ls db2Mgr. that goes away when i hit the tab complete button to show me my options: v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD:~$ ls db2Mgr. db2Mgr.C db2Mgr.h v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD:~$ ls db2Mgr. I'm trying to get this prompt to work: PS1="\[\033]61;\u@\H\007\]\u@\H \W>" but the issue there is that the > is duplicated (just like the space above, but much more noticable). Any ideas as to why making the title modification to use \u@\H instead of \w is causing these issues? -- 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/