"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, you should have RTFMpage, but here's the excerpt you want:
That seems a little over-harsh. > a command. Bash allows these prompt strings to be cus > tomized by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special > characters that are decoded as follows: [...] This list of bash escapes doesn't tell them the sequence of characters that has to be sent to an *xterm* to set the title-bar, which is what they really need to know. I had to dig around for a while before I figured that out. Maybe the rxvt man page has been improved... They also have to figure out the BASH_PROMPT variable if they want the "~" cleanup, and several other little tidbits that take quite a while to pull together. I certainly don't begurdge saving someone else the time to figure all that out. Others have certainly done the same for me innumerable times. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
