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From: christos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christos S. Zoulas)
Subject: Re: tcsh question
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 18:42:31 GMT

In article <9105220715.AA22652@> brad@lsr-vax.UUCP (Brad Zoltick - LMO) writes:

>Is there a way to insert ANSI escape sequences into the prompt
>string?  Under the C shell, you can customize your prompt by inserting
>ANSI escape sequences. I have not been successful in getting any
>escape sequences to work with the new prompt string within the TC shell.

In 5.20.02 and above you can have escape sequences in the prompt inside
%{<your escape sequence goes here>%}
For example on a vt100 to turn reverse video on: %{\e[7m%}

RT?M
christos
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