Hi I've recently installed zsh using cygwin on my Windows machince but when I type zsh to start this I get the following:
GG#GG-PC ~
$ zsh
\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u#\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$
On my mac I am using iTerm2 and this is so much easier to setup on here. Also I am having trouble in setting up the aliases and this is becauses its not setup properly in terms of config file where I can set this up in a separate file.
Any ideas how I can resolve?
It looks like zsh is inheriting the value of PS1 from the previous shell. The PS1 environment variable sets the shell prompt, and zsh used a different format for prompt substitutions than other shells. Try entering the following command after you start zsh:
PS1=$'%{\e]0;%d\a%}\n%F{green}%n#%m %F{yellow}%d%f\n%# '
If that works, add that line to your ~/.zshrc file.
That's also probably a good place to put your aliases.
There might be an issue because you launch zsh from bash actually and not cygwin.
One thing you can do is to launch zsh as the starting shell of mintty (the window that wraps your shell)
Create a shortcut with this inside:
c:\<cygwin-folder>\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico /usr/bin/zsh --login -
Yo need to update .zshrc with your required theme and then
source .zshrc
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I just have installed Catalina on my imac, and I saw a terminal bash looks weird.
It should be ~$ but my terminal shows ~%
Can anyone change this uncommon line(~%) to a normal line(~$)?
Thank you in advance
You can set your PS1 variable in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or .profile to whatever you want. For example:
export PS1=“\h \W $ “
Will give your hostname, current working directory, followed by the $ you wanted. This can be customized however you like, see this link for a good description.
Also, as chepner mentioned in the comments, you need to set your default shell back to bash. I believe the easiest thing to do is go into your terminal settings, and change your shell:
Terminal > Preferences... > General > Shells open with: Command (complete path): /bin/bash
For a long time, the bash was a default shell in macOS. However, Apple replaced Bourne Again SHell with Z shell for licensing reasons
Set default shell to bash on Macos Catalina. The procedure is as follows:
Open the terminal application.
List available shells by typing cat /etc/shells.
To update your account to use bash run chsh -s /bin/bash.
Close terminal app.
Open the terminal app again and verify that bash is your default shell.
I just upgrade pycharm into 2016.3.1. Before upgrade, I do not have problem to see the current directory path under the prompt on terminal window. After upgrade into pycharm 2016
3.1. All directory path on prompt on terminal window seems like messed up with 133;C;133;D;01337;RemoteHost=hawkins#pc_name.home1337;CurrentDir=/Users/hawkins/path133;MAC:path hawkins$ 133;B for some reason. Anyone have expereience on how to resolve this?
MAC:path$
133;C;133;D;01337;RemoteHost=hawkins#pc_name.home1337;CurrentDir=/Users/hawkins/path133;MAC:path hawkins$ 133;B
133;C;133;D;01337;RemoteHost=hawkins#pc_name.home1337;CurrentDir=/Users/hawkins/path133;MAC:path hawkins$ 133;B
133;C;133;D;01337;RemoteHost=hawkins#pc_name.home1337;CurrentDir=/Users/hawkins/path133;MAC:path hawkins$ 133;B
I had a similar problem. It turned out my problem was due to have iTerm shell integration installed.
As you have tagged the question [osx], I assume that you might also have done this.
There is a nice explanation to what these strange symbols mean in this answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294886/47407
I figured I could avoid having to uninstall Shell Integration by clearing my PROMT_COMMAND, and setting PS1 again. I made a shell script called pycharm_terminal.sh with the following
export PROMT_COMMAND=
export PS1="\[\e[31m\]\u\[\e[0m\] at \[\e[33m\]\h\[\e[0m\] in \[\e[32m\]\w\[\e[0m\] at [\A] \[\033[31m\]`git branch 2> /dev/null | grep -e ^* | sed -E s/^\\\\\*\ \(.+\)$/\(\\\\\1\)\ /`\[\033[35m\]\n$ \[\033[00m\]"
bash -i
The PS1 variable can be set to whatever you had before. This is just how I like mine.
Now, in PyCharm Settings: Go to Tools > Terminal and in "Shell path" set it to /bin/bash <path_to_pycharm_terminal.sh>.
Now try opening a new terminal in PyCharm. It shouldn't have those control character errors.
Solution that worked for me:
Go to Settings > Plugins
Find plugin "Python Terminal" and disable it
Restart PyCharm
The only negative effect I've noticed - auto activation of virtualenv on terminal start doesn't work.
for some reason, I figure it out by create a .pycharmrc under by user directories
and setting up /usr/local/bin/bash --rcfile ~/.pycharmrc under Tool->Terminal on shell path. It seems like it fixed but i have no idea why
MAC: path$ cat ~/.pycharmrc
exec bash
This is what worked for me:
Created new file pycharm_terminal.sh with one command bash -l
Then I set PyCharm Settings: to Tools > Terminal and in "Shell path" set it to /bin/bash/path_to_pycharm_terminal.sh.
Restart PyCharm and all work as expected
bash -l, by man, is a: -l Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login shell (see INVOCATION below).
which is probably mean, that when PyCharm starts the Terminal and executing the pycharm_terminal.sh with bash -l, everything in .bash_profile is include by default
Found this question while trying to resolve similar issue for 'Geany' on mac osx. I had an install of iterm2 on my machine and was getting garbage in front of the terminal prompt.
similar solution as KPLauritzen offered also works for 'Geany' terminal as such.
Hope this helps someone:
Create shell script in home directory using desired PS1 & CLICOLOR settings:
~/geany_terminal.sh
export PROMT_COMMAND=
export PS1='[\e[1;32m][\u#\h \W] \D{%F %T}\n\$[\e[0m]'
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=gxBxhxDxfxhxhxhxhxcxcx
bash -i
Then I went to 'Edit -> Preferences --> Terminal' and set my 'Shell' to:
/bin/bash /Users/myusername/geany_terminal.sh
Upon reloading Geany, the Terminal now displays with PS1 and CLICOLOR settings exactly as I have set in my .bash_profile without garbage in front.
You can just activate your .bash_profile
/bin/bash --rcfile ~/.bash_profile
I want the shell of emacs show the absolute path. My system shell is config like following
export PS1='\u#MacAir:\w$ '
I have try this way. It can't work for me .
PS: My emacs is emacs24
Solution : Add export PS1='\u#MacAir:\w$ ' into ~/.bashrc
The shell prompt is not the responsibility of Emacs but of the shell you're running. Assuming you're using bash, check out the following question+answer:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/388913/how-to-make-ps1-display-full-path-name
which recommends the use of the special escape sequence $PWD:
export PS1='\u#MacAir:$PWD$ '
Put the above line in your ~/.bashrc file for it to take effect in Emacs (as well as in normal terminals).
(A lot) more information can be found here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/
I use zsh, but we have some scripts that require bash and won't work in zsh. Basically what script does - it sets bunch of env vars and activates python VE. Usually when you activate python VE natively in bash, it changes the prompt:
mbp-ag:web-pr
mbp-ag:web-pr ag$ source etc/setup.bash
(ve)mbp-ag:web-pr ag$
See those parentheses? Now my problem is, when I run bash from zsh and activate python VE it activates it, but doesn't change the prompt. I don't like that
There's a mention here of someone with the same problem as you. Their solution was to edit the PS1 shell variable in the bin/activate file:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87062/how-to-display-the-name-of-the-current-virtualenv
There's also this ZSH plugin for virtualenv: https://github.com/tonyseek/oh-my-zsh-virtualenv-prompt
Quote:
It support to customize the virtualenv prompt in oh-my-zsh themes.
I've figured out... zsh with antigen and plugins handles prompt for pyenvs,
it sets VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1. Once I unset that in bash profile, it works
the prompt is a variable assigned to "PS1" so do something like
PS1="{new prompt}"
for example:
-bash-4.1$ PS1=">"
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I'm looking for a way to make the cygwin terminal more compact, or an alternate terminal that is more compact. Currently, every command I enter has a header line above it with username and pwd, and there is a blank line trailing every command. For instance:
username ~
$ cd tmp
username ~/tmp
$
3 lines for every 1 line of command. I frequently work on a small screen, which makes all this wasted space quite irritating. Is there a setting somewhere I can alter to prevent all this wasted space? Or, perhaps another terminal?
Thanks in advance.
That's the default shell prompt set by Cygwin.
To use a smaller prompt in your current terminal:
PS1='$ '
To make the change permanent, put that command in your ~/.bashrc file.
You can set the prompt to just about anything you like, as explained by the bash manual (there are several variables that control different prompts; $PS1 is the main one).
It's important to remember than in Cygwin (as in Linux and Unix), the terminal program is a separate program from the shell that runs in it. The prompt is controlled by the shell; bash is the default. The graphical display is controlled by the terminal emulator, which could be rxvt, mintty, xterm, or even the Windows terminal that normally runs a DOS-like shell.
What you're seeing there is the prompt, as stored in the environment variable PS1
echo $PS1
will show you how it's created. By the way, that prompt is managed by the bash shell, not by the terminal.
export PS1=$
will give you just a $ prompt
export PS1="$ "
will leave some room behind the prompt. There are many more possibilities, here is a nice tutorial.
bash reads its settings from a file called ~/.bashrc aka a file called .bashrc in your home directory. Note that due to the initial dot in the name ls won't show the file by default, ls -a or ls -la will.
I would Recommend we go with modern terminals using Cygwin-X as shown in the below interactive menu
I love Xfce Terminal which allows creating tabs and new windows with font options and color options