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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [TRAMP] Setting remote prompt
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:35:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvs0opt2.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87muxtgdff.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
<snip>
> The extraneous symbols were coming from the following fragment
>
>   \[\033]2;\u@\h\a\]
>
> which seems to be some sort of attempt to use the text attribute "dim"
> (2;), which is ignored or not displayed for most of my terminals, but
> produces

No.  Leaving the enclosing []s aside, the sequence is

  ESC ] 2; <string> BEL

with \033 being ESC and \a being BEL.  This sequence is used to set the
window title.

-- 
Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-24 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-24  7:58 [TRAMP] Setting remote prompt Loris Bennett
2018-04-24  8:14 ` Michael Albinus
2018-04-24  8:15 ` Loris Bennett
2018-04-24  8:56   ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]   ` <mailman.12925.1524560224.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-24  9:50     ` Loris Bennett
     [not found] ` <mailman.12922.1524557662.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-24  9:29   ` Loris Bennett
2018-04-24 10:35     ` Ben Bacarisse [this message]
2018-04-24 10:35       ` Ben Bacarisse

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