Re: 256 colors for bash/rxvt-2.7.10-4 ?

[Mikka <svartsjel at gmx dot net>]

Hi Olaf,

You wrote:
> Set the following values in .Xdefaults.
> [...]
>
> Now we have defined 16 Colours out of 256. These 16 colours can now be
> used in rxvt refering to them by name(colorX) or number.

Okay, building Rxvt*color references in .Xdefaults works fine.
However, I can't find any hint in a documentation or (web) tutorial how
to point to these values within a prompt definition.
Let's say, I've got the following prompt:

PS1='\[\033]0;\l \w\007\# \u@\h\w> '

That reads:

1 mikka@machine~> _

with the current console's name added to the console title (tty0 ~).
Including the colouring information, my prompt reads

PS1='\[\033]0;\l \w\007\# \[\e[37;1m\]\u@\h\[\e[32;1m\]\w>\[\e[0m\] '

The line above colours the "mikka@machine" section bright (i.e. "bold")
white, and the path section ("~>") green. The rest (both line numbering
and entered text) is standard ("white", or rather some sort of "gray").
Not too special, though.

I want the path section to be "GreenYellow" (#ADFF2F), and the
"mikka@machine" part being rendered "OrangeRed" (#FF4500).
In my .Xdefaults I set:

Rxvt*background:    #111111
Rxvt*backspacekey:  ^H
Rxvt*boldFont:      Andale Mono-14
Rxvt*color0:        #111111
Rxvt*color1:        GreenYellow
Rxvt*color2:        LightGray
Rxvt*color3:        OrangeRed
Rxvt*color4:        White
...
Rxvt*cursorColor:   GreenYellow

The values "GreenYellow" and "OrangeRed" are definitely accepted by
rxvt, so I assume these settings are valid.

$TERM is set to "rxvt" (also tried it with "cygwin") - dunno whether
that matters - but how to refer correctly to the .Xdefaults colour
values?

$color(0), ... $color(15) ?
$color0, ... $color15 ?
$Rxvt*color0, ... $Rxvt*color15 ?

Who knows, maybe bash 2.05b.0(1) lacks extended colour prompt support
after all?

The second thing, I intend to change is the behaviour of the ls output.
I've alias'd ls to something like:

alias ls='ls --color=auto --show-control-chars'

The --color thing provides a cyan, blue and green output that is not too
pleasant to read. It should be able somehow to change these default
colours as well, but how?

Let's hope a prompt/shell guru will read and answer this. :)

Greetings,

Mikka


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