X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:30:06 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Zach Gelnett cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Prompt issue within cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. Two more notes: first, the Cygwin lists don't accept HTML email, as you no doubt found out from the rejection notice, and second, please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: Again, . Thanks. > > Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. > > > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > > > > > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > > . 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] > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > Also, ESC] doesn't look like a valid ANSI escape sequence. What > > > > exactly are you trying to accomplish with your prompt? > > > > [snip] > > 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. > > Those characters work with mrxvt to cause the tab name to have the > appropriate user AT host value. Ah. Ok, that explains it. Good to know. Thanks. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu | igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT 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/