Hi!
I am not an expert on bash and sh but I could only make the cygwin-sfree-fax
topic 4.7 and 4.8 work with sh, not bash, so I assume it should be corrected
as suggested in my mail below?
Best regards
Arne Hårseth
PS: I do not subscripe to this list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "Arne Christian Hårseth" <arnechaa@online.no>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
Arne,
Can you send this to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com? Your suggestion seems
correct, but I would like other people to see it and add their thoughts.
Thanks for contributing,
Harold
Arne Christian Hårseth wrote:
Hi!
I see that you have the last revision of the Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently
Asked
Questions so I take the chance on sending this to you. Hope it is OK?
I think there is a bug in
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-bash-extended-cha
rs.
The description in 4.7 and 4.8 is said to cover bash but it actually only
works for sh. With bash you need to make a .bashrc instead of inputrc
containing something like this:
if test "$PS1"
then
PS1='\h(\u) \W \!\$ '
bind \
'set meta-flag on' \
'set convert-meta off' \
'set output-meta on' \
'set show-all-if-ambiguous on' \
'set expand-tilde on'
fi
This also adds a nice prompt.
Best regards
Arne Christian Hårseth