From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: Harres@UWyo.Edu (John Harres)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: bold prompt quirk
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:48:50 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <189.199701150948@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199701142256.PAA04037@horseman.uwyo.edu> from "John Harres" at Jan 14, 97 03:56:03 pm
John Harres wrote:
>While fiddling around with color prompts, I noticed this quirk:
>
>PS1="%B${PURPLE}%m${NORMAL}%(#.#.>)%b "
>
>does not display the > (or #) in bold, while
>
>PS1="%B${PURPLE}%m${NORMAL}%b%B%(#.#.>)%b "
>
>does.
I suspect that your terminal just doesn't like overlapping colour and
attribute selection, or possibly your ${NORMAL} is cancelling more than
just colour. In any case, there's not a lot we can do about that in
the shell.
-zefram
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