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From: "Mikael" <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice
Date:  Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:51:20 +0100
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"Brian Dessent" wrote:
> Mikael wrote:
>
>> Thanks Michael. I am using the CVS-version (dated early febraury) of 
>> Emacs.
>> I removed the lines I added to my .bashrc and added what you showed to my
>> .emacs. Now my bash shell inside emacs looks nice (and in color), but 
>> it's
>> not perfect. Here it is:
>>
>> ]0;c:/cygwin/home/mikael/coding/Win32/show_styles/src
>> mikael AT mindcooler c:/cygwin/home/mikael/coding/Win32/show_styles/src
>> $
>>
>> The first line doesn't look so good and it's basically repeating what's 
>> in
>> the second line (the path).
>
> The first line above of PS1 is an escape sequence that tells the
> terminal to change the window title to the given string.  Emacs
> apparently does not support that escape sequence, so you'll have to
> modify your prompt.  The Cygwin default is
>
> PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007\n\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]\n$ '
>
> The part that sets the window title is "\033]0;\w\007", so you would
> want
>
> PS1='\n\[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]\n$ '
>
> Note that '\[' and '\]' are pseudo-escape sequences that tell bash that
> the enclosed characters represent an escape sequence that the terminal
> will interpret and not print.  They are used so that bash will know to
> not include those characters in calculating the cursor position.
>
> If you want to change the colors, the number N in "\033[Nm" is what to
> modify.  See google or
> <http://www.dee.ufcg.edu.br/~rrbrandt/tools/ansi.html> for more details.
>
> Brian
>

Very nice Brian! Now it looks great! Thanks alot everyone for helping me 
out...now my list of outstanding issues, related or semi-related, to Cygwin 
got shorter!

/ M 




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