Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 10:19:38 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Randal Masutani <randal@hits.net> Cc: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get ansi color codes to work with sc0 console Message-ID: <20000813101938.A254@parish> In-Reply-To: <39948590.20415.64EB84@localhost>; from randal@hits.net on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:00:32PM -1000 References: <399341E3.28197.49E6E6@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008110817260.5420-100000@genisis.istar.ca> <39948590.20415.64EB84@localhost>
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:00:32PM -1000, Randal Masutani wrote:
>
[snip]
> I checked the man page for tcsh. However, the
> LS_COLORS env variable is used only for 'ls'
> listings. It does not apply to the 'prompt'
> setting, which I am trying to use with color.
>
> I did find out from the tcsh man page that the
> prompt variable has a different syntax than csh.
> The ESCAPE character needs to be enclosed between
> %{ and %}. This will treat the ESCAPE literaly.
> Without these quotes the ESCAPE character is translated to the text
> ^[.
>
> So, the above example should be now as:
> set prompt="%{^[%}[1;33;41m[`whoami`]%{^[%}[1;37;40m "
>
> This works great, I now get color prompts.
>
> Actually I use a little more fancy prompt:
>
> set prompt="%{^[%}[1;33;41m[%n@%M:%~]%# %{^[%}[1;37;40m"
>
> alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="%{^[%}[1;33;41m[%n@%M:%~]%#
> %{^[%}[1;37;40m"'
>
You no longer need to alias cd(1) with tcsh as you did with csh(1). The
variable ``prompt'' is now dynamic, i.e. it gets evaluated every time a
prompt is output. Remove your alias for cd(1) and you will see the
same result.
> Randal
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