Re: Good documentation about literal escape sequences in prompt?

[Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:

> PS1="%{"$'\e[1;31m'"%}$PS1%{"$'\e[0m'"%}"
> 
> > When I find some escape sequences from /usr/share/zsh/functions/colors, how
> > can I "convert" them so, that I can put them to my PS1 between %{...%} ?

> You should be able to take my line above as an example of this.

Thanks, I needed that! (C) Gillette. It works. And now, somebody please
add that to FAQ of Zsh.


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