On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > On 1/23/06, Zach Gelnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Again, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Let's not feed the spammers. > [snip] > I do have one final question. > > If I set PS1 like this: > > PS1="\[\033]61;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\\$ " > > Everything works great, no issues at all, what is expected is what is > displayed. > > Now, when i make only a slight modification as such: > > PS1="\[\033]61;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\h:\w\\$ " > > all the sudden i have a duplicate space after my prompt as in: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls db2Mgr. > > that goes away when i hit the tab complete button to show me my options: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls db2Mgr. > db2Mgr.C db2Mgr.h > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls db2Mgr. > > I'm trying to get this prompt to work: > > PS1="\[\033]61;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\H \W>" > > but the issue there is that the > is duplicated (just like the space > above, but much more noticable). Any ideas as to why making the title > modification to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of \w is causing these issues? There is a prompt bug in bash that causes it to miscount the number of displayed characters. One workaround was to append '\[\]' to PS1. Also, a good habit to get into is to use single quotes in the shell when some value contains backslashes. However, I can't reproduce your problem on my system (I only see one '>' with the above PS1 setting). I don't believe you've posted the information requested in the problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> in this thread... Please attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" so that we can find out, among other things, what version of bash you are using, as well as what else is different in our setups. 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/
