RE: prompt colors in xterm

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Ok change your PS1 from

export PS1='\e[1m\@ \e[0;31m\u\e[m \W \! #'

to

export PS1="\e[1m\@ \e[0;31m\u\e[m \W \! #"

note "" instead of ''you are using.  If use your '' I get error on startup
bash: execvp: No such file or directory.

After changing ' " to " ", it works I can see colors.  I will send you
screenshot directly
in a while.  The xterm code which I am using under Cygwin is exactly same
as on Linux per say, or xterm code from xfree86.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Jacobson [mailto:teridon@erols.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:24 PM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: prompt colors in xterm
> 
> 
> 
> Suhaib,
> 
> Thanks for the screen dump and PS1.  However, your prompt does not 
> have colors in it.  Have you tried setting your prompt to what I use, 
> to see if it works?  try this, please:
> export PS1='\e[1m\@ \e[0;31m\u\e[m \W \! #'
> 
> 
> How do I get the colors for the directory listings?  I can then see 
> if that works for me.
> 
> >I sent you my PS1 command.  Does it help?
> >
> >Suhaib
> >
> 
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> Robert Jacobson                        teridon@erols.com
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