From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 23:03:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44FC37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:03:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lifesupport.shutdown.com (dsl092-048-059.sfo2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.48.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CAF43FAF for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from llewelly@lifesupport.shutdown.com) Received: (from llewelly@localhost) by lifesupport.shutdown.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id h6F5xaR00362; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:59:36 -0700 (PDT) To: Joshua Oremzn References: <20030714013931.7485.qmail@web41107.mail.yahoo.com> <3F12DF9F.2060304@comcast.net> <20030714172421.GC11619@webserver.get-linux.org> From: LLeweLLyn Reese Date: 14 Jul 2003 22:59:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20030714172421.GC11619@webserver.get-linux.org> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Kevin Berrien Subject: Re: Color shell prompts (was Re: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE mutt & color (color)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:03:54 -0000 Joshua Oremzn writes: [snip] > It makes a prompt like this, but in color: > --[ /, 33 files / 10M ]-- --[ 10:23 AM ]-- --[ oremanj @ webserver.get-linux.org[0] / ttyv1 ]-- > --[ 136 processes ]-- --[ 4 users ]-- > --[ % ]-- > > -- Josh > > P.S. Of course I don't use that prompt! And why not? It is a very helpful and informative prompt. And please don't complain that it is too long; surely everyone now runs xterm fullscreen on 1600x1200 with a 5x7 font! ;-) (ok, so the laptop which is my primary computer doesn't do 1600x1200, and I don't run xterm full screen :-)