rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible

rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible

[Chris Green]

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.

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

Re: 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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Re: rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible

[Chris Green]

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.

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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

Re: rxvt comes up with lots of escape sequences visible

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

cgf

Re: 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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