Pavel Roskin's pointer to PS1 helpt solve my problem.
First, Ik really should have given more info on my system. I'm using KDE
3.1 on SuSE Linux 8.2. The problem I described occurred in KDE's konsole
(I believe in other X-based consoles as well).
SuSE's /etc/bash.bashrc creates a PS1 with the value:
PS1="\[\e]2;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\$(ppwd)\007\e]1;\h\007\]\u:\w${_p} "
Somehow, the shell imployed by mc to process this string was choking on
it. If I ran mc in a normal console (not X-based), the prompt would be ok.
The solution to my problem was to create the file ~/.mc/bashrc, and in
that file set PS1 to something sensible, like
PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w> "
Pavel, thanks again for the help
Joseph
_______________________________________________
Mc mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
