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Re: Is there a way to get bold font in the IDL prompt? [message #46099 is a reply to message #46098]

Wed, 02 November 2005 06:41

Oilhead Beemer
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2005

Junior Member

JD Smith wrote:
> One way would be switch to IDLWAVE, which colors your prompts for you:
>
> http://idlwave.org/screenshots/emacs_21_bp.gif
>
> If you'd prefer to stick with the shell, something like:
>
> !PROMPT='\033[1;34mIDL> \033[m'
>
> in your IDL startup file should do it for most terminal programs.
> Just replace the "\033" in the above with a real Escape character (C-q
> ESC in Emacs would do that for you).
>
> JD

Thanks JD,

Does this work on your system? I don't seem to be able to get this to
work. The IDL shell doesn't interpret the escape characters from the
underlaying shell it seems. So if I do:
!PROMPT='\e[1m aaa \e[0m '
in an IDL session that is started from bash I get this prompt
literally. I do get the correct 'aaa' in bold in the shell itself when
I change $PS1. Same behaviour in tcsh.

Best,
oilh

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		Re: Is there a way to get bold font in the IDL prompt? By: Oilhead Beemer on Wed, 02 November 2005 11:04
		Re: Is there a way to get bold font in the IDL prompt? By: Foldy Lajos on Wed, 02 November 2005 07:21
		Re: Is there a way to get bold font in the IDL prompt? By: Oilhead Beemer on Wed, 02 November 2005 06:41
		Re: Is there a way to get bold font in the IDL prompt? By: JD Smith on Tue, 01 November 2005 13:15

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