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Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:53:45 -0500, Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> wrote:
>
> Well, you aren't going to get a colored prompt from within Emacs, but you
> can set it up in your .bashrc so it is usable. I have this code in my .bashrc:
>
> if [ "$EMACS" == "t" ]
> then
> export PS1="*** \@ *** \w ***\n\r"
> else
> export PS1="*** $LCYAN\@$WHITE *** $YELLOW\w$WHITE ***\n\r$NEUTRAL"
> fi
>
> So while it isn't colored, it gives me the info anyway.
I do the terminal checking the other way, because many terminals can
not display colors. Like this:
if [ "$TERM" = xterm -o \
"$TERM" = cygwin ] ; then
(set PS with colors)
else
(set PS with NO colors)
fi
Ehud.
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