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Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>
> > And this is an evil default in /etc/profile,
> > [snip]
> > I would prefer the cygwin default for bash to be:
> >
> > PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\e[32m\]\n\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
>
> Well, I'm hoping I can find the time to propose a bash update this
> weekend to the official packages. ... If it is under control of the
> bash package, then I will add this in. But it may not be.
> [snip]
/etc/profile is a user-controlled. The default /etc/profile is in
/etc/defaults/etc/profile, and, as "cygcheck -f /etc/defaults/etc/profile"
shows, this is distributed as part of the "base-files" package.
"cygcheck -l base-files" should list all of the files in "base-files".
Igor
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