How do I get red text on a black background in tcsh
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:26:57 -0000, Grant Edwards staggered into the Black Sun and said:
The OP's question was kind of vague. Does he want all text displayed to be in red on a black background? Does he want certain things to be red-on-black? Does he know that ncurses programs like vim and so forth typically issue a "tput reset" sequence when they exit normally? The "normal" text color is typically controlled by the color scheme you use in your xterm-konsole-aterm-whatever, so if he wants red-on-black to be the normal text color, he should fiddle with his terminal emulator config.
If the OP wants to fiddle with the colors in his tcsh prompt, it's like so:
set prompt="%{-03301;32m%}%m%{-03301;34m%}%~%{-03300m%}%# "
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 02:20, Heather stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes...: You are also cross-posting this to... -alt.os.linux.suse;-comp.os.linux.misc;and...
...hostname in green, current working directory in blue, then turns coloring off. Adjust to taste. You sort of want to turn coloring off after the prompt, so that you get appropriate output from things like "ls --color=tty" and so forth. All the numbers for the color codes are in "man consolecodes". HTH,
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