Bashrc distinguish between mintty and x-windows xterm

[Andy]

Andy wrote:
| Ken Jackson <cygwin <at> jackson.io> writes:
|> ==== Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:32AM -0400 Buchbinder, Barry
|> (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
|>> Andrew Hancock sent the following at Friday, May 25, 2012 12:42 AM
|>>>Barry, it works flawlessly. Thanks immensely!
|>> 
|>> But I forgot to export ThisTerm, otherwise it is always unset when
|>> a subshell is launched.
|> 
|> Access to the /proc file system is fast, so you could forgo the
|> variable and access it directly:
|> 
|> case "$(< /proc/$PPID/exename)" in
|>     */xterm)  echo "This is an xterm" ;;
|>     */mintty) echo "This is a mintty" ;;
|> esac
|
|Barry, Ken,
|
|Thanks for your valuable scripting examples.  It sent me scurrying back to the
|man page to figure out case/esac and command substitution.  It's also a good
|reminder of the wealth of detail available in /proc.

For the record, this in .bashrc seems to work well in xterm's white background
and mintty's black background.

case "$(< /proc/$PPID/exename)" in
   */xterm) function setPS1() {
      PS1="\[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[35m\w\033[0m\]\n$" ;
      echo xterm
   } ;;
   */mintty) function setPS1() {
      PS1="\[\e]0;\w\a\]\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$" ;
      echo mintty
   } ;;
esac


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