Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 23:00:32 -1000 From: "Randal Masutani" <randal@hits.net> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't get ansi color codes to work with sc0 console Message-ID: <39948590.20415.64EB84@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008110817260.5420-100000@genisis.istar.ca> References: <399341E3.28197.49E6E6@localhost>
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<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>On 11 Aug 2000, at 8:21, Dru wrote: <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, 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 " > > > > 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? > > I had this same problem when I upgraded to 4.1 as I had saved my .cshrc > file. Do a search through the manpage for tcsh for "ls_colors" to see the > different syntax for tcsh. I've actually found it easier to use, just > different. > > Dru </color><FontFamily><param>Courier New</param>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 ^[.<FontFamily><param>Arial</param> <FontFamily><param>Courier New</param>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"' Randal <nofill> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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