From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Subshell lost ANSI colors
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58091AD9.6090504@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c9c752a-adbd-c0b1-35ed-59d293c395d8@yandex.ru>
Am 20.10.2016 um 21:06 schrieb Evgeny Grin:
> Hi!
>
> Noticed some time ago: most of subshells lost colors and prints some codes.
> Sample output:
> ====================================================================================
> User@PcName ~
> $ dash
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$ exit
>
> User@PcName ~
> $ ash
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$ exit
>
> User@PcName ~
> $ zsh
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ exit
>
> ...
> bash, sh and fish shells print colorized prompt.
> The rest prints ANSI codes.
> Same happens in Windows standard console.
>
> Am I doing incorrectly something?
Yes, you expect all shells to have the same capabilities. There are some
prompt formatting codes in your PS1 that not all shells understand. You
should set specific PS1 values in shell-specific profiles.
Thomas
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