rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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.
	Igor
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