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Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
- From: Arne Christian Hårseth <arnechaa at online dot no>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:13:15 +0200
- Subject: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi!
I am not an expert on bash and sh but I could only make the cygwin-sfree-fax
topic 4.7 and 4.8 work with sh, not bash, so I assume it should be corrected
as suggested in my mail below?
Best regards
Arne Hårseth
PS: I do not subscripe to this list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "Arne Christian Hårseth" <arnechaa@online.no>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
Arne,
Can you send this to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com? Your suggestion seems
correct, but I would like other people to see it and add their thoughts.
Thanks for contributing,
Harold
Arne Christian Hårseth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I see that you have the last revision of the Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently
Asked
> Questions so I take the chance on sending this to you. Hope it is OK?
>
> I think there is a bug in
>
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-bash-extended-cha
> rs.
> The description in 4.7 and 4.8 is said to cover bash but it actually only
> works for sh. With bash you need to make a .bashrc instead of inputrc
> containing something like this:
>
> if test "$PS1"
> then
> PS1='\h(\u) \W \!\$ '
> bind \
> 'set meta-flag on' \
> 'set convert-meta off' \
> 'set output-meta on' \
> 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on' \
> 'set expand-tilde on'
> fi
>
> This also adds a nice prompt.
>
> Best regards
> Arne Christian Hårseth
>