From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: August Karlstrom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Messed up shell prompt Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:48:33 GMT Organization: Telia Internet Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140047834 14107 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2006 23:57:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 16 00:57:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9WWH-000685-Ab for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:57:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9WVo-0004Ji-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:56:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.235.49 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com Original-X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1140040113 83.250.235.49 (Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:48:33 CET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:48:33 CET Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137588 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33213 Archived-At: Hi everyone, When I start a shell in Emacs with `M-x shell' I get the prompt [august ~]$  instead of [august ~]$ The value of the PS1 environment variable in ~/.bashrc is export PS1="\[\033[0;34m\][\u \W]\$ \[\e[0m\]" Any clues? August -- I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.