From: st001008@HRZPUB.th-darmstadt.de (Thomas Pierre Schweikle)
To: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas V. de Bakker)
Cc: mliggett@indiana.edu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: couple of zsh features
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 01:52:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v02130502acf214518f39@[130.83.177.13]> (raw)
At 10:07 Uhr 08.12.1995, Bas V. de Bakker wrote:
> Matt Liggett <mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>
> > I can tell what's what, but it could save me the odd 0.75 second here
> > or there when I'm scanning up to find the command.
>
> But there is a way to do this. Put an escape sequence in your prompt
> to make the text boldface, red, blinking, whatever your terminal can
> handle. Then set the POSTEDIT variable to the sequence that resets
> this feature.
Quite the best way to find out where the last command was typed! But on
some (elderly) terminals this might not work - they don't have colours,
blinking, bold or even inverse! There is a solution too: just print a line
containing some 80 characters all the same:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Like the above! I do this to find my way inbetween commands and there
output - expecialy when using terminal emulators. Most of them don't even
have inverse.
-- Thomas
next reply other threads:[~1995-12-16 1:18 UTC|newest]
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1995-12-16 0:52 Thomas Pierre Schweikle [this message]
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1995-12-08 7:20 Sven Wischnowsky
1995-12-07 16:31 Matt Liggett
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1995-12-07 17:29 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1995-12-07 17:59 ` Matt Liggett
1995-12-08 9:07 ` Bas V. de Bakker
1995-12-07 20:22 ` Richard Coleman
1995-12-07 19:02 ` Barton E. Schaefer
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