On Thu, 05 May 2011 09:43:04 +0000, pwnedomina <pwnedom...@gmail.com> wrote: > ok, ive choosen "reply to all". my question now is > i have setted the command prompt to > "|[%n@%m:%c]%#" > but i intend to place color red in the [] brackets, how can i accomplish > this?|
It looks like you are configuring a C shell prompt, correct? Make sure you have the following settings in ~/.cshrc (or in /ect/csh.cshrc, if you want a global setting): set promptchars = "%#" set prompt = "%n@%m:%~%# " This would give you the STANDARD prompt - note the space after the prompt character and the absense of the brackets. You want red color - I'm not sure if this is supported in csh. At least I know that bold printing is possible. Have a look at this: set prompt = "[%B%n@%m:%~%b]%# " This uses %B and %b to switch on and off bold printing. Refer to "man csh", section "Special shell variables" and scroll down to "prompt" - there are some more special settings to customize the prompt. It mentions "%{string%}" for escape sequences and can MAYBE be used for changing color. Is the pipe character at the beginning of the prompt intended? If yes, use this: set prompt = "|[%B%n@%m:%~%b]%# " I've kept the space at the end of the prompt for better readability. Remove it if desired. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"