On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 2:47 PM Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > > It's the same: what we do in zsh with `%F{color}`, we do in readline
> > > with $'\001\e[31m\002'.
>
> This is my sincere belief. You are free to not believe it is.
>

This is getting a bit silly, but:

While the above is generically true, given "color" is a placeholder for a
set of possible escapes of which "31m" is a specific example, it is not
true that $'\001anyrandomstring\002' in readline is accomplished via
%F{anything} in zsh.