On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:55:05PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote: > > > When I start an rxvt window on my cygwin X display (a local win2k rxvt > > client that is) it has lots of visible escape sequences, e.g.:- > > > > \[\033]0;\w\007 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > > > > Presumably these should be interpreted somehow by rxvt and not > > displayed. What am I doing wrong? > > > > The window works otherwise, it redisplays the above after every > > command though. > > > > I've not done anything apart from installing rxvt (by using > > startup.exe) and then running rxvt. > > It's the default *bash* prompt as displayed by ash. For some reason, rxvt > doesn't pick up that your shell is bash and invokes /bin/sh, which doesn't > understand the ansi escape sequences. Either invoke rxvt through "rxvt -e > bash --login -i" or change the default prompt to contain the actual > control characters instead of the \033 bash-isms. > OK, thanks very much, just what I needed to know. Getting rxvt to run bash explicitly works perfectly.
-- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
