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From: gibney@triad.apana.org.au (John Gibney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Colour Prompts possible with tcsh?
Date: 16 Feb 1996 21:38:25 GMT
Organization: APANA in Melbourne, Australia
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Howdy, all...

Just installed tcsh Ok and I was wondering if there's a way
to enable colour somehow within the tcsh?

Using the cons25 terminal type, on the virtual terminals,
with the standard csh, I was able to embed escape sequences
in my prompt string (in .login, say) and I'd be able to get
colour prompts.  ...but it doesn't seem to be possible to do
this when using tcsh.

I've had a look through the man pages but there doesn't seem
to be anything relevant there (then again, I don't really
know what I'm looking for - I'm new to Unix sys admin).  I
thought there might be something about ANSI sequences or
something but I couldn't find anything :(

Any suggestions?

Thanks a heap.


John