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My emacs terminal is currently displaying ;0user@Ubuntu: ~user@Ubuntu:~$". This happened after my friend was using my laptop, and is persisting after uninstalling and reinstalling emacs, as well as deleting .emacs related files. I have tested the terminal on emacs on different accounts on my laptop, and it is not suffering from this, so migrating my files is an option, but annoying. Does anyone have a way of fixing the terminal on emacs? I'm running Ubuntu as well.

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    Some kind of issue with your PS1 shell prompt, by the looks of it. What does echo $PS1 tell you (from a shell in that terminal) ?
    – phils
    Commented Dec 19, 2019 at 2:52
  • Thank you, it was the PS1 value, I'm not sure how the value was differing between bash on Emacs and bash on a normal shell prompt, they were both pointing to the same location for the shell
    – Andrew
    Commented Dec 21, 2019 at 0:12
  • You'd have to check your shell init file(s) to see what was setting it, and whether it was conditional on anything. If you can't figure it out, update the question with the relevant details.
    – phils
    Commented Dec 21, 2019 at 0:24

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The problem ended up being in my .bashrc file in my home directory. The issue was the PS1 value under the case "$TERM" in clause had somehow been modified. I changed this value to PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' to reset it back to the default.

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