From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@st.jyu.fi>, zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Good documentation about literal escape sequences in prompt?
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:05:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1000312000522.ZM26743@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003120123170.22919-100000@verso.st.jyu.fi>
On Mar 12, 1:41am, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
} Subject: Good documentation about literal escape sequences in prompt?
}
} %{...%}
} Include a string as a literal escape sequence. The
} string within the braces should not change the cursor
} position. Brace pairs can nest.
}
} Hey, come on! Do you really think that is enough? Why don't you provide some
} good examples? I know you can do it better!
It's an acknowledged problem that the docs need more examples. Care to
provide any?
} For example this does not work:
}
} PS1="%{\e[1;31m%}$PS1%{\e[1m%}"
^^^^^^^^
The doc says LITERAL escape sequence; the substring \e is not LITERALLY the
character with ASCII value decimal-27. What other part of the doc gave you
the idea that prompting would replace \e with something else?
} Color-codes were found from /usr/share/zsh/functions/colors
Well, then. What you want to do is (1) run that function `colors' to set
up the $fg_bold array, etc., and then (2) set your prompt like this:
PS1="%{$fg_bold[red]%}$PS1%{$reset_color%}"
} I tried to understand other files in /usr/share/zsh/functions, like _prompt
} and promptinit but even it was the real pain in the ass.
It's also true that there's no doc for the prompts stuff yet. You type
autoload -U promptinit
promptinit
And then you can get a little bit of help from `prompt -h'.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-12 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-11 23:41 Juhapekka Tolvanen
2000-03-11 23:55 ` Adam Spiers
2000-03-12 0:05 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2000-03-12 17:35 ` Juhapekka Tolvanen
2000-03-12 18:19 ` Oliver Kiddle
2000-03-12 19:34 ` Juhapekka Tolvanen
2000-03-12 18:37 ` Bart Schaefer
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