On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 12:51 PM Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
wrote:

>
> I guess I could set the color codes in variables and use the variables.
>

Functions/Misc/colors from 5.9 (and even from git HEAD, currently) is
backward-portable to 4.2.x (again, tested on 4.2.6).

This may be useful:

coloresc() {
  local codes=$(printf "%s;" ${(e):-\$\{color\["$^@"\]?oops\}})
  REPLY=$'\e['"${codes%;}m"
}

Used like
  coloresc bg-bright-blue bold white
it sets $REPLY to the escape sequence for the listed color combination.