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On 02/22/2015 05:23 AM, junkcommander0@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
> In zsh, the background color gets reset once the characters have been 
> printed.
>     ex:
>     kecho -ne "\033[1;33;43m abcdefg"
>
>
That's interesting, zsh is so different from bash there.  One of the 
guys will have an answer for you if there is one.  Just off hand tho, 
bash seems more correct--the default colors should not be restored 
unless you restore them explicitly, I'd say.