Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-02-22 17:22:04 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 23, 12:55am, ZyX wrote:
[...]
> } I mean, whether it makes sense to output \C-o to drop SO mode by
> } default just like it is done currently with colors.
> 
> Hrm.  The Lock Shift feature to chose character sets is a lot less common,
> the prompt code would actually have to check that the G0 capability is
> present in the terminal definition, etc.  I'm not personally familiar with
> the terminal handling code in prompt.c ... on brief examiniation I can't
> even find where it's emitting color reset and clear-screen.
> 
> Still, there's no reason you can't put $'%{\CO%}' at the front of $PS1.
> Or putting that in $PROMPT_EOL_MARK might work as well.

FYI, I do something like that in my precmd function:

    [[ -n $TTY && -n $terminfo ]] && {
        echoti rmacs
        echoti sgr0
        echoti cnorm
    } > $TTY 2> /dev/null

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