> > use colorized prompts. Red is root, cyan is local user, purple is local > > user with developer environment variables, green is remote, etc. It > > helps when you have as many different terminal sessions open at one time > > as I do. > > Wow, how could you do that? Can you share your code with us? > I use colored xterms to distinguish those -- easier to do. :-)
It's just a question of sticking some ANSI color codes into the prompt wherever it's defined. The user prompt comes from /etc/bash.bashrc I think, and root's prompt from /root/.bashrc. In my case, I never log onto the other boxes locally, so I didn't need to bother with any kind of cleverness to figure out whether I'm at the console or not, so remote boxes just have green prompts set up in /etc/bash.bashrc. When I'm going to dedicate a terminal session to development work, I just source the devel environment script, and that changes the prompt as well as setting up CXXFLAGS and whatnot. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
