Re: can zsh set background color?

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I'm personally content with a different colored prompt for remote 
machines.  This is taken care of in my .zshrc file with something like 
this pseudo code:

case ${HOST} in
  (host1) PS1=<substitute your favorite prompt here> ;;
  (host2) PS1=<different colored prompt here> ;;
esac

I don't want to take the focus of this discussion off of zsh, but if 
you're using OS X and Terminal, you can set up a Terminal window to 
have the characteristics that you like (i.e. color of background), then 
save it as a .term file which you launch only when you want to ssh to a 
particular host.  You can even set it so that just by launching a 
particular .term file, the ssh command will be carried out for you.  
Details here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86134
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152410
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152408

Hope this helps.



On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> I am using the Terminal program in Mac OS X, not X Windows.
>
> TjL