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Re: Screen color question
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: Barry Goldstein <bag at shore dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:12:18 -0800
- Subject: Re: Screen color question
Barry,
I think I misunderstood you last time. There are indeed color-changing
sequences in the prompt you've got (it originates in /etc/profile, by the
way). But when I use that prompt, the color change is restricted to the
prompt itself.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 13:49 2002-03-06, Barry Goldstein wrote:
>I should have thought of that, but having done it, it doesn't stick -- the
>next prompt restores the dim light-green-on-black.
>
>So I think it's my prompt that is 'insisting' on the dimness.
>
>The prompt strings are
>PS1=$'\\[\\033]0;\\w\\007\n\\033[32m\\]\\u@\\h \\[\\033[33m\\w\\033[0m\\]\n$ '
>PS2='> '
>PS4='+ '
>
>I'm not sure where to re-set these or what they should be -- I'll go and
>read the man bash pages. All I want is the current directory followed by
>the usual'>'.
>
>BG
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