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From: arc1@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Shell-prompt-pattern value
Keywords: shell prompt pattern variable
Message-ID: <5310@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Jun 88 12:28:14 GMT
References: <14029@cci632.UUCP>
Reply-To: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <14029@cci632.UUCP> rrw@cci632.UUCP (Richard R. Wessman) writes:
>I am trying to set the variable "shell-prompt-pattern" so that emacs
>will recognize the prompt "Si, senor[ccird1]? ".

I got emacs to accept everything ok when I set
shell-prompt-pattern to be

         (setq shell-prompt-pattern "Si, senor\[ccird1\]\? ")

I was running Tenex C-shell in emacs with

          set prompt = "Si, senor[ccird1]? "

Could you say what you actually set it to yourself?

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Tony Curtis, Computing Lab.                | arc1@uk.ac.ukc
Univ. Kent at Canterbury                   | 
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