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Subject: Re: cygwin emacs characters
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, bh77 wrote:

> I am running emacs from cygwin but am getting some strange characters
> appearing when using a shell. I assume this is something to do with the
> character set, but do not know why it is occurring. Anyone able to help?
>
> Running latest version of cygwin on windows xp
>
> here is sample output from a 'shell
>
> ]0;~
> bhuckel AT wbkdwbhuckel ~
> $ ls
> _emacs	emacs-21.3
> ]0;~
> bhuckel AT wbkdwbhuckel ~
> $
>
> all ideas greatly appreciated

Check your PS1 value.  If your .bashrc sets PS1, I'd suggest
conditionalizing it to not do that when TERM=emacs (or whatever emacs sets
the TERM to).
	Igor
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