Re: how to change the prompt in Cygwin

[Vidiot <brown at mrvideo dot vidiot dot com>]

>Could you please help on how to remove the path display in my Cygwin?
>It looks like following and I don't like it:
>
>user@mymachien /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Desktop
>$
>
>I want to change to
>
>user@mymachien$
>
>it is concise and good enough. please suggest.

I use zsh, but the following can be modified to fit your needs:

if [[ xterm = $TERM || vt102 = $TERM ]]
        then export PROMPT="%{^[[1m%}BRN <%h> %{^[[0m%}"
        else export PROMPT="BRN <%h> "
fi

The first prompt lines sets the simple prompt in bold and the ^[ is the real
control character, not the ^ and [ characters.  The second prompt line is
when it isn't an xterm or vt100 window (can't set the text in bold).

Because I still want to see the current path location, I send it to the
title bar:

if [[ xterm == $TERM || vt102 == $TERM ]]
        then chpwd() echo -n "^[]2;${PWD}^G"
fi
if [[ xterm == $TERM || vt102 == $TERM ]]
        then chpwd
fi

Again, the ^[ and ^G are real control characters.  These lines go into the
.zshrc file.

The above method for setting the title bar isn't perfect, as it is easy
to change into a directory that ultimately doesn't call chpwd.  When that
happens, just do a "cd ." and that will update the path.

Adjust to your taste and shell.

MB
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