[SOLVED] Help Customizing Terminal prompt

RockDoctor · 04-05-2011, 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTK358

No.

Bad advice

Found http://webhome.csc.uvic.ca/~sae/seng265/fall04/tips/s265s047-tips/bash-using-colors.html and tried it with

Code:

 echo -e "\e[1;34mThis is a blue text.\e[0m this is not"

MTK358 · 04-05-2011, 06:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RockDoctor

Bad advice

Found http://webhome.csc.uvic.ca/~sae/seng265/fall04/tips/s265s047-tips/bash-using-colors.html and tried it with

Code:

 echo -e "\e[1;34mThis is a blue text.\e[0m this is not"

I never said you can't do colors. But what you can't do is make bash dynamically highlight different commands as you type them, which is what the OP wanted.

theNbomr · 04-05-2011, 01:00 PM

I've never looked at the tab-completion code, which I assume is somewhere in the readline library, but my guess is that most of the machinery to detect 'keywords' already exists, and for someone modestly industrious, you could add color to the commandline as keywords are detected. Sounds like an interesting project for someone asking one of those 'what should I do with my new programming skills?' questions.

--- rod.

EzioAuditore · 04-07-2011, 12:28 PM

Yeah i guess It'd be a very useful thing to have keywords automatically highlighted.. Languages like c, c++ etc can already do it..
It'd really be nice if any program out there reading it could work on this project..
It'd be really soothing to eyes in distinguishing commands in terminal.. :P