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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Umm, I see I was a little TOO terse.  The characters you're seeing are
> the way emacs renders the ESC (^[) character from the ANSI escape
> sequences that are part of your prompt ($PS1).  Their purpose is to set
> the colors on terminals that support it.  Emacs's terminal emulation
> doesn't support those escape sequences, and thus tries to render them
> literally. Arguably, emacs should support at least the color sequences,
> but SHTDI.
>
> PS1 is usually set in .bashrc or .bash_profile, or /etc/profile (or
> inherited from the environment).  It may be simplest to just add a line
> at the end of your .bashrc saying "if [ $TERM = emacs ]; PS1='$ '; fi".
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Make that "if [ $TERM = emacs ]; then PS1='$ '; fi".  I can only claim
severe coffee deprivation.
	Igor
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