Re: RFE: tty color features

2012-09-25 Thread Dave Yost
On Tue 2012-09-25, at 12:02 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2012-09-25 08:01, Dave Yost wrote: > >> It would be nice to be able to specify fg/bg colors at the tty level, >> so that echoed characters can be colorized. > > The tty layer does not know what $TE

RFE: tty color features

2012-09-25 Thread Dave Yost
(This is not a complete spec, only a sketch.) It would be nice to be able to specify fg/bg colors at the tty level, so that echoed characters can be colorized. Then your shell can arrange that shell command input is one fg/bg color, and other input taken by commands run from the shell is

RFE: tty color features

2012-09-25 Thread Dave Yost
(This is not a complete spec, only a sketch.) It would be nice to be able to specify fg/bg colors at the tty level, so that echoed characters can be colorized. Then your shell can arrange that shell command input is one fg/bg color, and other input taken by commands run from the shell is

Re: RFE: tty color features

2012-09-25 Thread Dave Yost
On Tue 2012-09-25, at 12:02 AM, Jan Engelhardt jeng...@inai.de wrote: On Tuesday 2012-09-25 08:01, Dave Yost wrote: It would be nice to be able to specify fg/bg colors at the tty level, so that echoed characters can be colorized. The tty layer does not know what $TERM is used, so