How do I fix my prompt in emacs shell-mode?
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I'm doing some programming on a colleague's machine. He has a version of emacs (23.1.1) I haven't used before. My problem is that when I go to shell-mode, my bash prompt looks like this: I have set to in my . It's supposed to look like this: This is how it looks in a regular shell. I've also checke…
Error Output
^[]0;jay@socrates:~^G[jay@socrates]$
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Your shell is trying to set the XTerm's (or other console) title/header. There are a number of ways this might be being done. First make sure the PS1 is really what you think it is That will tell you if there are control characters in the prompt, le…
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