Re: Double paths in MC's command line widget

[Adam Daniel <adamd forensicdata com au>]

Thanks for that, I just upgraded to SuSE 8.2 and had the same problem. 

Adam

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:16:50AM +0200, jhrtweed xs4all nl wrote:
> Pavel Roskin's pointer to PS1 helpt solve my problem.
>
> First, Ik really should have given more info on my system. I'm using KDE
> 3.1 on SuSE Linux 8.2. The problem I described occurred in KDE's konsole
> (I believe in other X-based consoles as well).
>
> SuSE's /etc/bash.bashrc creates a PS1 with the value:
> PS1="\[\e]2;\u \h:\$(ppwd)\007\e]1;\h\007\]\u:\w${_p} "
> Somehow, the shell imployed by mc to process this string was choking on
> it. If I ran mc in a normal console (not X-based), the prompt would be ok.
>
> The solution to my problem was to create the file ~/.mc/bashrc, and in
> that file set PS1 to something sensible, like
> PS1="\u \h:\w> "
>
> Pavel, thanks again for the help
>
> Joseph
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