RE: bash & $PS1 (display error)

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

At 10:15 2003-02-01, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:rrschulz@cris.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:01 AM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: RE: bash & $PS1 (display error)
> >
> >
> > At 20:37 2003-01-31, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> > >My prompt is (from the script below) "PS1='$PWD> '".  All of the
> > >characters are 'printable' and none are \[\] enclosed.
> >
> > Rolf,
> > Is 'printable' different than plain old printable?
>
> No.
>
> > Anyway, I can repeat this (and other concomitant artifacts, too).
> >
> > It looks like a bug.
> >
> > I like current directory feedback, too, but I hate it in the prompt.
> > Putting it in the window title bar is nice, however. If you like that
> > idea, try this or something similar:
> >
> > PS1=$'\[\e]0; \u :: \W (\w)\a\]\!> '
>
> I tried just setting my prompt to some long static string (200 a's), and
> it produced the same result.  This problem has nothing to do with
> printing a path in a prompt.

Rolf,

That's hardly surprising. I assumed you encountered the problem because 
you were working in a deeply nested directory with a very long absolute 
name. To me, even modest-length directory names are intrusive when 
included in the shell prompt, which is why I offered my alternative. Do 
you just want to have an incredibly long prompt?

Randall Schulz


> -Rolf

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