shells in Cygwin Xemacs on Win7

[General Schvantzkoph]

I'm trying to uses shells on a Win7 box, I'm a Linux user and I do all of
my work inside of Xemacs and I always use Emacs shells. I have Cygwin with
Xemacs on the box to make the system usable however shells are a mess, it
looks like more than just the end of line problem. I'm getting stuff like
this,

^]0;~^G

Is there something I can put into the init file to run a Windows shell
cleanly?

[Henry S. Thompson]

General Schvantzkoph writes:

> I'm trying to uses shells on a Win7 box, I'm a Linux user and I do all of
> my work inside of Xemacs and I always use Emacs shells. I have Cygwin with
> Xemacs on the box to make the system usable however shells are a mess, it
> looks like more than just the end of line problem. I'm getting stuff like

That's your fancy prompt string. It won't work inside xemacs. You
need to change wherever you are setting up the PS1 environment
variable.

In my case I have
a) explicit-shell-file-name set to "/bin/bash";
b) my normal PS1 initialisation in .bashrc wrapped inside

if [ "$TERM" = 'emacs' ]
then
export PS1='\W> '
else
... # your existing PS1 code goes here, if any
fi

Hope this helps,

ht
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