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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:35:05 +0200
From: GRENON Richard <Richard DOT Grenon AT onera DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: Some comment about Cygwin1.1.4
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Hello,

I followed the discussion about my first mail. I received an info about
a possible .bashrc file and I did'not see it on the mailing list so I
send a copy. Maybe somebody would be interested in. I would not be able
to do the test before a week, so if anybody wants to try ...

>From: "Robert Praetorius"
>
>A slightly relevant addition to the bash discussion.  I
>discovered, almost accidentally, after not having read that part of
>the bash docs for years, that bash has a facility for encapsulating
>special characters in prompt strings so that they don't cause cause
>confusion in line wrap calculations, etc.
>
>you aren't required to put a newline in your prompt string
>to clear the effects of special characters.

>All you have to is put \[ . . . \] around the special characters.
>Here is what I have in my ~/.bashrc (last line is what matters):

Here is a copy of the last line of this .bashrc file :

export PS1='\[^[]0;\u@\h \w^G^[[32m\]$\[^[[0m\] '

Richard

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