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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:47:50 -0800
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Comments: In reply to Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
 "Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area" (Feb 23, 11:58am)
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On Feb 23, 11:58am, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
}
} In xterm and urxvt, you can do
} 
} printf '\033]10;%d\a\033]11;%d\a' $fgcolor $bgcolor

Hmm, that didn't work for me -- it did nothing in xterm, and in urxvt it
changed the background but not the foreground.

Incidentally $fgcolor and $bgcolor there are numeric codes, not escape
sequences.  If you do

    autoload colors
    colors

then you can use e.g. $color[yellow] to get the numeric code.