Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > > > > > Here is what i am seeing: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> > > > > > > > the duplicate ">" is the issue. Here is my PS1: > > > > > > \[\033]61;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\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 > > > > \[\033]61;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\H \W> > > ^^ > > Note the closing '\]'. > > > > 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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 '[EMAIL PROTECTED] \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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
