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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Colour Prompts possible with tcsh?
Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:20:03 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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gibney@triad.apana.org.au (John Gibney) writes:
> Using the cons25 terminal type, on the virtual terminals,
> with the standard csh, I was able to embed escape sequences
> in my prompt string (in .login, say) and I'd be able to get
> colour prompts. ...but it doesn't seem to be possible to do
> this when using tcsh.
You need to enclose your escape sequences into %{ %} pairs. This way,
tcsh passes them through literally, and doesn't account for the length
of the enclosed portion when accounting for the line length.
(I'm sending the current working directory via an escape sequence to
the xterm title, and this used to work well for more than a year.)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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