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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:58:53 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: emacs shell mode prompt with escape sequences "\[\033]0;\w\007"
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Kelly Felkins wrote:

> At the risk of exposing my ignorance of shell initialization, I'm not sure how
> best to fix this.
> 
> First, I think the issue is that the emacs shell does not know how to interpret
> these sequences. Can emacs be configured to correct this?

I think that it's a sh-vs-bash thing.  sh does not know how to handle
the escape sequences, but bash does.  So any interactive shell started
as /bin/sh will display them.  For example, if you just type "rxvt &"
you will get them because rxvt invokes /bin/sh if you don't tell it
otherwise.

The solution is probably just to tell emacs to create a shell by obeying
$SHELL (which should be /bin/bash) and not by calling /bin/sh.  I know
nothing about emacs though.

Perhaps a cleaner solution would be to modify the stock /etc/profile to
detect whether it is running under bash or sh, and create an appropriate
prompt.  I don't know who's maintaining the base-files package or
whether he/she's interested in looking into this.

Brian

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