Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:25:37 +0800 From: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@time.net.my> To: Wang Peihan <"peihanw@mx.cei.gov.cn"@mx.cei.gov.cn> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xterm title bar and bash prompt Message-ID: <01013021295300.01967@FreeBSD.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.32.0101301717040.-302587@wph-notebook> References: <Pine.WNT.4.32.0101301717040.-302587@wph-notebook>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Wang Peihan wrote:
> In my ~/.bashrc, there are sections like this
>
> ### begin ###
> if [ $TERM = "xterm" -o $TERM = "xterm-color" -o $TERM = "vt100" ]; then
> USER=`whoami`
> export USER
> HOST=`hostname`
> export HOST
> PS1='^[]2;${USER}@${HOST}:\w^G$ '
> export PS1
> fi
> set -o vi
> ### end ###
>
> So, the title bar of an xterm window looks like
> "student@study.bbs.edu.cn:~/prog/cc/work".
>
> It is cool, but a weird thing happens. The line wrap of bash did not work
> properly any more. When typing a long command line, the input line is a
> mess.
>
> Is there any way to correct this?
>
> (My system is 4.1 stable, bash 2.04)
>
>
>
>
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bash 1/2 honour "PROMPT_COMMAND", which evaluated everytime the prompt appear
try this:-
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${SHELL} - ${USER}@${HOST}:${PWD}\007"'
PS1="\u@\h \W\\$ "
export PROMPT_COMMAND PS1
--
+----------------------------------------+
| /\_____ |
| / ./__ |
| / __/ < I do understand.. |
| / ___/ |
| / / |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| *warf* *warf* |
| |
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