Re: coloring the command-line?

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/02/2008, Aaron Davies <aaron.davies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i'd like to have all the commands i type in (some) zsh shells appear
> in a color other than regular gray
>
> at the moment, i'm doing this in PS1
>
> export PS1='^[[0;31m%# '
>
> and it works decently, but has the drawback of screwing up alignment
> in some odd ways:
>
> if i use ^R to start a history search, the cursor jumps forward eight characters
>
> if i type off the end of the screen, it loops around to the beginning
>
> if i pull up a more-than-one-screen command with an up-arrow and start
> backing up to edit an early part of it, the cursor jumps to the line
> above
>
> etc.
>
> i assume there's a better state to leave the tty in that doesn't have
> these side effects?

Enclose the escape code with %{ and %} and it should work fine. Ie
something like
export PS1='%{\e[0;31m%}%# '

-- 
Mikael Magnusson