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Re: Is there a way to get bold font in the IDL prompt? [message #46098 is a reply to message #46093]

Wed, 02 November 2005 07:21

Foldy Lajos
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Registered: October 2001

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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Oilhead Beemer wrote:

> 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
>
>

Hi,

the escape character is 27b, and

!PROMPT=string(27b)+'[1;34mIDL> '+string(27b)+'[m'

works on linux/xterm.

regards,
lajos

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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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