Thorsten Kampe wrote:
lftp and yafc show a wrong prompt in the following terminals: cmd, 4nt,
console and far manager. Basically each coloured part of the prompt is
surrounded by two "funny faces" - the first is white and the second has
the desired colour.
I don't know what these are. Are they non-Cygwin applications that are
looking at the environment variable 'PS1'? Cygwin apps (e.g. 'printf')
should cope with escapes correctly even in Windows consoles (otherwise
even bash would not work).
Obvioulsy all Windows terminals can't interpret those "non-visible
characters" (or they don't ignore them like they should or readline
doesn't "eat" them like it should).
Where is the culprit here? Cygwin readline not correctly interacting
with non Cygwin terminals? Windows terminals not understanding common
readline(?) escape characters?
Windows consoles don't understand escapes, period. Also AFAIK nothing
except readline understands \[ and \]. But Cygwin understands escapes so
Cygwin applications should work even in a Windows console.
Is there a way to solve the issue?
Don't use escapes in non-Cygwin programs.
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Matthew
Obscurity: +5
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