[Mailinglist] Colouring $PS1...

[Mahesh Aravind]

Dear fellow Linuxers,

(see attachment)

I had recently been fooling around with the colouring the bash(1) $PS1
variable for making $PS1 _really_ colurful prompt.  I found myself
reading the console_codes(4) man page (and the inevitable bash(1) man
page, too) from time to time.

This was a pain.  As for a newbie, s/he can't quickly grasp the concept
of DEC escape codes, and differentiate VT220 codes from ECMA control
codes.  So to help the newbies, I decided to code up a simple(?!) shell
script from which the desired colour codes could be looked up as X,Y
coordinates.

This is no great hack.  And I concentrated only on the `Normal' and
`Bold' category of codes, since `Underline' and `Blink' attributes
couldn't always be handled by all VCs (of course, some xterm(1x) could
interpret them).

In the script, the Y axis denotes the foreground colour ranges, and the
X axis denotes the background colour ranges.

Well, the standard disclaimer applies.  Any suggestions and corrections
are welcome (all flames to /dev/null).  I'm releasing this script as
GPL.


No worries,

Mahesh Aravind
--
PS: If you want any help, do an "nl -ba colors.sh". ;-)

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