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Re: rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible
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.:-
>> >
>> > \[\033]0;\w\007
>> > \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
>> >
>> > 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.
cgf