Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:09:05 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Randal Masutani <randal@hits.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get ansi color codes to work with sc0 console Message-ID: <20000811130905.D254@parish> In-Reply-To: <399341E3.28197.49E6E6@localhost>; from randal@hits.net on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:59:31PM -1000 References: <399341E3.28197.49E6E6@localhost>
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:59:31PM -1000, Randal Masutani wrote:
> I am not able to get any ANSI color codes to
> work with the standard sc0 console since
> installing 4.1 release.
>
> All other releases I had no problem. Has anyone
> tried using something like:
>
> set prompt="^[[1;33;41m[`whoami`]^[[1;37;40m "
>
Hmm, this appears to be shell specific. What shell are you using? I
use csh which is now (a hard link to) tcsh and your prompt does the
same for me. However, if you switch to sh(1) and enter:
% sh
$ PS1="^[[1;33;41m[`whoami`]^[[1;37;40m "
[mark] [appears as yellow on red]
(the ESC char, ^[, typed as ``CtrlV ESC'').
> All I get for the prompt is the exact same
> string between the quotes as shown above without
> any color.
>
> Is there something new in RELEASE 4.1 that
> handles color ANSI code differently?
>
> Thanks
> Randal
>
>
>
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