[Eug-lug] To Horst-Q/colours

[Allen Brown]

Bob Miller wrote:
> Allen Brown wrote:
> 
> 
>>This is not working for me.  All I get is a box where I try to
>>print the escape char, followed by the other chars.
>>  ESC=$(echo -ne "\033")
>>  echo -e "${ESC}31;1foo"
>>should print a red "foo".  Instead I get
>>  []31;1foo
>>where [] represents a single character.
> 
> 
> Uh, the sequence you need to output is
> 
> 	escape left-bracket number semicolon one letter-m
> 
> And to return to normal color, you need to output
> 
> 	escal left-bracket letter-m
> 
> Or, in bash syntax,
> 
> 	echo "${ESC}[31;1mfoo${ESC}[m"

That's better.  I now have
     if [ "${COLORTERM-}" = "gnome-terminal" ]; then
       PS1='\[\033[361m\]\h:\W\$\[\033[m\] '
     else
       PS1='\h:\W\$ '
     fi
in /etc/bashrc.

> Did you catch the python script I sent out last week on this topic?

I remember something going by.  But I couldn't find it today.
--
Allen