The Mercurial 1.5 sprint is taking place in our offices this week-end and pair-programming with Steve made me want a better looking terminal. Have you seen his extravagant zsh prompt ? I used to have only 8 colors to decorate my shell prompt, but thanks to some time spent playing around, I now have 256.
Here is what I used to have in my bashrc for 8 colors:
NO_COLOUR="\[\033[0m\]"
LIGHT_WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"
WHITE="\[\033[0;37m\]"
GRAY="\[\033[1;30m\]"
BLACK="\[\033[0;30m\]"
RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
LIGHT_RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
YELLOW="\[\033[0;33m\]"
LIGHT_YELLOW="\[\033[1;33m\]"
BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
LIGHT_BLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]"
MAGENTA="\[\033[0;35m\]"
LIGHT_MAGENTA="\[\033[1;35m\]"
CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]"
LIGHT_CYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]"
# set a fancy prompt
export PS1="${RED}[\u@\h \W]\$${NO_COLOUR} "
Just put the following lines in your bashrc to get the 256 colors:
function EXT_COLOR () { echo -ne "\[\033[38;5;$1m\]"; }
# set a fancy prompt
export PS1="`EXT_COLOR 172`[\u@\h \W]\$${NO_COLOUR} "
Yay, I now have an orange prompt! I now need to write a script that will display useful information depending on the context. Displaying the status of the mercurial repository I am in might be my next step.
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