Re: rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible

[Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>]

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.

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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)