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:
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>
> 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
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