rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:38PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 06:18:37PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> >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.
> 
> FWIW, you can also set the SHELL environment variable to /bin/bash and
> rxvt will bring up bash automatically.
> 
Even neater, thanks.

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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)