X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:36:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: bh77 cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin emacs characters In-Reply-To: <4938774.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: References: <4938774.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, bh77 wrote: > I am running emacs from cygwin but am getting some strange characters > appearing when using a shell. I assume this is something to do with the > character set, but do not know why it is occurring. Anyone able to help? > > Running latest version of cygwin on windows xp > > here is sample output from a 'shell > > ]0;~ > bhuckel@wbkdwbhuckel ~ > $ ls > _emacs emacs-21.3 > ]0;~ > bhuckel@wbkdwbhuckel ~ > $ > > all ideas greatly appreciated Check your PS1 value. If your .bashrc sets PS1, I'd suggest conditionalizing it to not do that when TERM=emacs (or whatever emacs sets the TERM to). 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/