On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:38PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. > Even neater, thanks.
-- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
