Re: How to give command line??

[Edgar Merino <donvodka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, now that I saw this I've got a question kind of related to this: 
can I apply color dinamically to some part of the cmd line based on the 
current string typed?
For example, given this cmd line string "user@host ~/>% ssh 
remote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx", is it possible to apply a, say, red color to the 
substring "ssh" dinamically (after it's been typed)?


Thanks in advance,
Edgar Merino



Simon Ruderich escribió:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:49:55PM -0700, Guido van Steen wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Is there a way - possibly using ZLE - to give different parts
> > of the command line different colors, e.g. can I make the first
> > word green, the second word red and so on?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Guido
> >     
>
> Hi Guido,
>
> Of course this is possible. Here is an example (part of my
> prompt).
>
>     # Color support, necessary for ${fg[...]}.
>     autoload -U colors && colors
>
>     PROMPT="%{${fg[green]}%}%B%m%b%{${fg[default]}%}:\
>     %{${fg[blue]}%}%B%~%b%{${fg[default]}%}%# "
>
> It colors %m (hostname) in green and bold (%B and %b), then
> resets the color to default and draws : in the default color,
> then draws %~ (current directory) in blue and bold and resets the
> colors again, then draws the % with %# (or $ for root) in the
> default color.
>
> The %{..%} around the colors are necessary to tell Zsh that the
> colors don't take any space so it can draw the prompt correctly.
>
> For more information see man zshmisc and search for SIMPLE PROMPT
> ESCAPES (it's at the end of the file) and man zshcontrib and
> search for colors (the second occurrence).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Simon
>