From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with ESMTP id MAA26291 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:18:49 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24279; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 19:53:18 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 19:53:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 01:52:40 +0100 To: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas V. de Bakker) From: st001008@HRZPUB.th-darmstadt.de (Thomas Pierre Schweikle) Subject: Re: couple of zsh features Cc: mliggett@indiana.edu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Resent-Message-ID: <"fd3ol1.0.Hx5.-XXqm"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/696 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu At 10:07 Uhr 08.12.1995, Bas V. de Bakker wrote: > Matt Liggett 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