Re: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Arne,

There's an entry in the main Cygwin FAQ that may be of interest:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC49>.
	Igor

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Arne Christian Hårseth wrote:

> 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

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