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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arne Christian Hårseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:07 AM Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions Arne, Can you send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 >