On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > : On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:06:22PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: > : > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Luiken, Arijan wrote: > : > > : > : I wonder (my guess that this is more a bash/linux question) is it > : > : possible to display colors (ansi) in your prompt and ifso HOW ???? > : > > : > Yup, just use the 'standard' escape sequences and put them in the PS1 > : > environment variable. > : > : "Standard"? Which? Bad idea IMHO. > > I mean the ANSI escape sequences like ESC[33;1m etc. > > -Remco In your .bash_profile or similar, enter a line like: PS1=^V[[33;1m This is my prompt To get the escape sequence, press Ctrl-V, Ctrl-left-bracket, then left-bracket and the correct number. I saw a good article in the Linux Gazette dealing with this. I think it was one of the 2-cent Tips from this year's issues. (Just use a search engine to find Linux Gazette's web site, then browse the back issues.) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
