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On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > > > On 1/23/06, Zach Gelnett <zachg99@XXXXX.XXX> wrote: > > > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX> wrote: > > Again, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Let's not feed the > spammers. > > > [snip] > > I do have one final question. > > > > If I set PS1 like this: > > > > PS1="\[\033]61;\w\007\]\u@\h:\w\\$ " > > > > Everything works great, no issues at all, what is expected is what is > > displayed. > > > > Now, when i make only a slight modification as such: > > > > PS1="\[\033]61;\u@\H\007\]\u@\h:\w\\$ " > > > > all the sudden i have a duplicate space after my prompt as in: > > > > v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD:~$ ls db2Mgr. > > > > that goes away when i hit the tab complete button to show me my options: > > > > v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD:~$ ls db2Mgr. > > db2Mgr.C db2Mgr.h > > v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD:~$ ls db2Mgr. > > > > I'm trying to get this prompt to work: > > > > PS1="\[\033]61;\u@\H\007\]\u@\H \W>" > > > > but the issue there is that the > is duplicated (just like the space > > above, but much more noticable). Any ideas as to why making the title > > modification to use \u@\H instead of \w is causing these issues? > > There is a prompt bug in bash that causes it to miscount the number of > displayed characters. One workaround was to append '\[\]' to PS1. Also, > a good habit to get into is to use single quotes in the shell when some > value contains backslashes. > > However, I can't reproduce your problem on my system (I only see one '>' > with the above PS1 setting). I don't believe you've posted the > information requested in the problem reporting guidelines at > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> in this thread... Please attach the > output of "cygcheck -svr" so that we can find out, among other things, > what version of bash you are using, as well as what else is different in > our setups. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX | igor@XX.XXX.XXX > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." > "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in > that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" > Sorry, not sure that the config is an option in gmail, but i'll do it by hand. Attached is the file listing the bash version as 3.0-14 adding the trailing slash produces: PS1='\[\033]61;\u@\h:\w\007\]\u@\H \W>\[\]' v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD ~>> again, if i do a couple of tab complete button presses that clears the extra entry: v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD ~>>ls db2Mgr. db2Mgr.C db2Mgr.h v468929@TRD-CAX40JXD ~>ls db2Mgr.
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