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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Zach Gelnett <zachg99 AT gmail DOT com>
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Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote:

> On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX> wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote:
> >
> > > Here is what i am seeing:
> > >
> > > v468929 AT 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]
> >
> > You have a bug in your PS1 value.  Bash uses \[ and \] to delimit
> > non-printable sequences in the prompt.  So, your PS1 should at least be
> >
> > \[\033]61;\u@\H\007\]\u@\H \W>
> >                    ^^
> > Note the closing '\]'.
> >
> > Also, ESC] doesn't look like a valid ANSI escape sequence.  What
> > exactly are you trying to accomplish with your prompt?
> >         Igor
>
> That was precicesly my issue.  Thank you very much, both issues (tab
> complete and dup > entries) are resolved!
>
> FYI, I'm just trying to have a prompt that says:
>
> username AT hostname workingdir>
>
> this is because i login to multiple machines and use tabbed windows
> (available within mrxvt) to do this.  i find having this prompt makes it
> quite easy to keep track of what env i'm logged into and where i'm at.

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.

BTW, forgot to mention: none of this is Cygwin-specific.
	Igor
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