On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 06:18:37PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: >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.
FWIW, you can also set the SHELL environment variable to /bin/bash and rxvt will bring up bash automatically. cgf
