From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,683ed7548d27f705 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-05 20:50:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "B. Douglas Hilton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: for a beginner... Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 23:55:05 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3B453699.CEF03399@engineer.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3B4515F8.3076B3A6@engineer.com> <000901c105c6$288d58e0$03000004@p4g4r3> <3B452EBB.88763BDD@engineer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9534 Date: 2001-07-05T23:55:05-04:00 List-Id: As an adendum, here is a relevant portion of my Linux profile which gives me a nice colorized prompt. Add it to your .bash_profile or .bashrc Keep in mind that wherever you see ESC, with the vi editor you should press CTRL-V ESC to embed an actual escape character into the sequence PS1='\[ESC[1;30m\]<\[ESC[35m\]\#\[ESC[30m\]>(\[ESC[36m\]\h\[ESC[30m\])[\[ESC[34m\]`pwd`\[ESC[30m\]]\[ESC[32m\] $\[ESC[0m\] ' A b/w version of your prompt will be: <13>(thunder)[/home/doug] $ the 13 will be purple, the thunder will be bright cyan, the /home/doug will be blue, the $ will be green, and everything else will be bright black. Any text you type will be grey. Regards, - Doug