Well... I love console... but with colors!!!
Give me some time to read "the other" man pages (not man bash, of
course...) :))
One more question -maybe the answer is in your reply but I lost it, then
sorry-:
If ";1m" is bold ";5m" is blinking and ";m" is reset: Which is NORMAL
TEXT? Because ";0m" or ";m" doesn't let me colorize just text, not
background!!! Is it ";2m" as my tests seem to be?
Thx again for yur answer:
--
J. M. Albores
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, J. M. Albores wrote:
>
> > It can be read in Configuration-HOWTO that bash's prompt can be colored
> > just adding some lines to "/etc/bashrc":
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > COLOUR=45
> > if [ $USER = 'root' ] ; then
> > COLOUR=41 # red
> > PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
> > fi
> >
> > ESC="\033"
> > STYLE=';1m' # bold; choose which one to use
> > # STYLE='m' # plain
> > PS1="\[$ESC[$COLOUR;37$STYLE\]$USER:\[$ESC[37;40$STYLE\]\w\\$ "
> > PS2="> "
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> > Several questions about it:
> >
> > 1. What is this "\033\" for and what does this mean?
> > I read something in Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO but I understand nothing
> > about "stty -sane ...etc" or unimap codes... Don't know what that mean.
>
> \033 is a way to enter the ASCII character escape (0x1b, octal 033,
> control-[) using bash's excape character \. See man bash, THE WHOLE
> +*!! THING. Oh, all right, you may scan it for strings you might be
> interested in with the command /<string>, and break for meals and naps
> :-). I like man bash, but it is one whacking big man page.
>
> man ascii is shorter, and might be more help.
> >
> > 2. This issue works with COLOUR within a range from 40-47: as I
> > understand from /etc/DIR_COLORS these are background colors, if
> > dircolors is related to this. But doesn't work properly with colours
> > from 30-37 which are "Text" color codes if I change ';1m' for 'm' in
> > STYLE...
> >
> > 3. Cannot found in DIR_COLORS info what this thing of: "STYLE" means. I
> > mean... color 30 is black text... but what does it mean ';1m' or 'm'
> > mentioned as $STYLE ???
>
> It isn't used in DIR_COLORS. it is just a bash variable used in that
> little script snippet at the end of the escape sequence. If you are
> going to hack on this script you are likely to provoke some little bugs
> in it. 1 is the ECMA-48 command to set bold attribute, so ;1m in STYLE
> sets bold attribute and ends the sequence. m just ends the sequence
> without changing anything. I don't like it that STYLE is at the
> beginning and end of the PS1 string, so the attribute is propagated
> beyond the prompt, so I have changed my copy.
>
> > Anybody who tries to change colors from 40-47 with the 'm' style can
> see
> > it doesn't work properly.
>
> So what is wrong with white text on a white background? :-)
> If you don't like that, try 45 with ;5m for STYLE and see if you like
> that better.
>
> Is the above maybe a typo for 30-37? The script hardcodes the
> foreground color to white, 37, which it gives after COLOUR.
>
> > Where can I find info?
>
> man console_codes, the section on ECMA-48 Set Graphics Rendition.
> >
> > I just want to have a full customizable bash prompt in order to impress
> > my Windoze friends with Linux beauties (and because I like it)!!!
> > ;)
> >
> > --
> > J. M. Albores
> >
> Here is a version of the script I like a little better. You will still
> need to read man console_codes to hack it very well. Since it is
> setting the environment, to see what it does, use the bash builtin
> command source. If you named the script ./color,
>
> source ./color
>
> If $USER is blank, try uncommenting the USER=$LOGNAME.
>
> Lawson
>
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # USER=$LOGNAME
> COLOUR=47 #background color for prompt
> FG=35 # foreground
> if [ 'root' = $USER ]; then
> COLOUR=41 # red
> PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
> fi
> RESET=';0m'
> ESC="\033"
> STYLE=';5m' # attribute; 1 is bold, 5 blink....
> PS1="\[$ESC[$COLOUR;$FG$STYLE\]$USER:\[$ESC[$FG;40$RESET\]\w\\$ "
> PS2="> "
>
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