From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24312 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 13:19:56 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 13:19:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 4636 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 1999 13:19:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8913 Received: (qmail 4629 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 13:19:40 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:19:35 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199912061319.OAA06256@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:37:06 +0300 Subject: Re: Something wrong with prompt themes Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > Some prompt themes (e.g. elite) explicitly use characters with 8th bit set. This > looks really ugly here - tested on dtterm and console (AT386 terminal - dunno if > it specific to SINIX or is in common use) with ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-5 > charsets. Irritating, isn't it? ;-) But that reminded me... Adam, have you ever thought about extending your prompt themes stuff to include definitions for the format styles used by the completion code (so that they look appropriate for the prompt style used)? > ... > > Or use style(s) to switch them on/off. Themes may look nicely even without these > characters - and users may conditionally switch them on/off depending on current > terminal. Which brings us back to the idea of using a generic package code, sigh. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de