From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13308 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2015 20:50:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 34626 Received: (qmail 11672 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2015 20:50:01 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-workers@zsh.org From: Christian Neukirchen Subject: Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:49:50 +0100 Message-ID: <877fv8tksx.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20150222132310.GA18377@wintermute> <150222111007.ZM18687@torch.brasslantern.com> <20150222200735.GA14096__25621.2553395473$1424635776$gmane$org@wintermute> <87fv9wuc6z.fsf@gmail.com> <150223084750.ZM20328@torch.brasslantern.com> <6174581424711648@web12m.yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-178-007-115-006.178.007.pools.vodafone-ip.de In-Reply-To: <6174581424711648@web12m.yandex.ru> (ZyX's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:14:08 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) ZyX writes: > 23.02.2015, 19:48, "Bart Schaefer" : >> 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. > > I do not know why Christian Neukirchen thinks fgcolor and bgcolor are > supposed to be numeric codes here. You should actually use strings: > the following works in urxvt, xterm and konsole: > > printf '\033]10;%s\a\033]11;%s\a' Blue Red > printf '\033]10;%s\a\033]11;%s\a' '#00FF00' '#0000FF' > > . These are colors recognized by an X11 function, *not* the terminal > escape sequences or terminal color numbers. I read urxvt(7) and tested it, and assumed they implement "XTerm Operating System Commands" like xterm. ;) But this is even more useful. -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org