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Re: cygwin emacs characters
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: bh77 <ben dot huckel at convergys dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:36:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin emacs characters
- References: <4938774.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, bh77 wrote:
> I am running emacs from cygwin but am getting some strange characters
> appearing when using a shell. I assume this is something to do with the
> character set, but do not know why it is occurring. Anyone able to help?
>
> Running latest version of cygwin on windows xp
>
> here is sample output from a 'shell
>
> ]0;~
> [32mbhuckel@wbkdwbhuckel [33m~[0m
> $ ls
> _emacs emacs-21.3
> ]0;~
> [32mbhuckel@wbkdwbhuckel [33m~[0m
> $
>
> all ideas greatly appreciated
Check your PS1 value. If your .bashrc sets PS1, I'd suggest
conditionalizing it to not do that when TERM=emacs (or whatever emacs sets
the TERM to).
Igor
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