Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
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
Re: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
Arne, There's an entry in the main Cygwin FAQ that may be of interest: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC49. Igor On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Arne Christian Hårseth wrote: 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Re: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
Igor, Is his suggestion correct? If so, I will need to update the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ. Thanks, Harold Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Arne, There's an entry in the main Cygwin FAQ that may be of interest: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC49. Igor On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Arne Christian Hårseth wrote: 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
Re: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions
Harold, His suggestion is equivalent to having a .inputrc with the lines he passes to bind. Two of the options (show-all-if-ambiguous and expand-tilde) have nothing to do with 8-bit characters, the other three are the same as in the FAQ entry. In other words, the FAQ entry *is* correct, and don't bother changing it. As for the distinction between bash and sh -- .inputrc is used by the readline library, and, FWICS, ash (the /bin/sh in Cygwin) does not use readline at all (but bash does). So I don't see why the FAQ suggestion didn't work for Arne in bash, and how it could possibly work in sh (unless he tried it on Linux, where /bin/sh is a symlink to bash, which still doesn't explain why it didn't work in bash). Igor On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Is his suggestion correct? If so, I will need to update the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ. Thanks, Harold Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Arne, There's an entry in the main Cygwin FAQ that may be of interest: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC49. Igor On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Arne Christian Hrseth wrote: 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 Hrseth PS: I do not subscripe to this list. - Original Message - From: Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arne Christian Hrseth [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 Hrseth 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-chars. 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 Hrseth -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
