Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42CD7838.4070107@edgedynamics.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:45:12 -0700 From: "Peter D. Stout" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Bash 2.05 vs. 3.0 Prompt Behavior Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes I updated my Cygwin installation this morning and picked up the new version of Bash (3.0-7). When I started a new shell (running under rxvt) I was suprised to see that my prompt displayed differently than before the upgrade. I use the following prompt PS1='\[\e]0;${WINDOW_TITLE}\u@\h \w\a\]\u@\h\$ ' The difference is the display of the portion that is not put in the title bar, with Bash 2.05 the prompt was (ignoring the tick marks, which are only included to the trailing whitespace) 'pds@whangarei$ ', while with Bash 3.0 the prompt is 'pds@whangarei$ '. Note the extra space at the end with 3.0. If I remove the space, the dollar sign is doubled, i.e. 'pds@whangarei$$', if I replace the last space in the PS1 value with someother character, then that character is doubled. I do not see this behavior if I use the default value of PS1 from /etc/profile. I have tried googling 'bash 3.0 prompt' and did not find any obvious help. Has anybody else seen this behavior? -Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/