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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 18:27:07 -0700
To: Sandeep Tamhankar <sandman@Interwoven.com>,
        "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap
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Hi,

Here's a little more on the promt business. It has proved popular with 
fellow nerds in my office:

My PS1 for any terminal (emulator) that supports it (xterm, xterm-color, 
vt100, vt102, vt220, cytwin, at least) is this:


PS1=$'\[\e]0; \u :: \W (\w)\a\]\!> '
# Note:
#  This sequence:
#  ESC]0;
#      ^ zero
#  Starts the title setting sequence. Everything from there to
#  the CTRL-G (also "\a" within $'...') is put in the window title.
#  Some terminal emulators (notably TeraTerm) put a pretty stingy
#  limit on how much they'll display, but you don't have to limit
#  the length you attempt to put there


I don't mind the information typically put into prompts, but I _hate_ to 
have it literally in the prompt!

Randall


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