Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-02-23 08:36:37 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> For what it's worth, the way I deal with keeping track of builds and
> hosts is to include the host name and part of the version string in
> the prompt, and color each of those differently.

I put the hostname in the prompt and the window title.

> The background and foreground stay the same because I have them
> adjusted for maximum readability.

Ditto. And many applications produce colored output. If the background
changed, some colors would necessarily be unreadable.

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