How to customize prompt color in *shell* ?

How to customize prompt color in *shell* ?

[KKramsch]

How can one change the color of the prompt in Emacs' interactive
shell?  For some reason, I'm getting a dark blue prompt over a
black background which is very hard to read (I'm running emacs
-nw).  (The commands I type at the prompt appear in light gray, so
that's OK.)

Thanks!

	Karl

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Re: How to customize prompt color in *shell* ?

[V. L. Simpson]

>>>>> "KKramsch" == KKramsch
>>>>> <karlUNDERSCOREkramsch@yahooPERIODcom.invalid> writes:

    > How can one change the color of the prompt in Emacs'
    > interactive shell?  For some reason, I'm getting a dark
    > blue prompt over a black background which is very hard to
    > read (I'm running emacs -nw).  (The commands I type at the
    > prompt appear in light gray, so that's OK.)

M-x customize-face RET comint-highlight-prompt
I used M-x list-faces-display to find that.

vls

Re: How to customize prompt color in *shell* ?

[KKramsch]

In <87oei75066.fsf@ghidra.localhost> "V. L. Simpson" <vls@freeshell.org> writes:

>>>>>> "KKramsch" == KKramsch
>>>>>> <karlUNDERSCOREkramsch@yahooPERIODcom.invalid> writes:

>    > How can one change the color of the prompt in Emacs'
>    > interactive shell?  For some reason, I'm getting a dark
>    > blue prompt over a black background which is very hard to
>    > read (I'm running emacs -nw).  (The commands I type at the
>    > prompt appear in light gray, so that's OK.)

>M-x customize-face RET comint-highlight-prompt
>I used M-x list-faces-display to find that.

Hey, that's a 2-for-1 answer.  I really appreciate that!  Thank
you.

	Karl

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Re: How to customize prompt color in *shell* ?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"V. L. Simpson" <vls@freeshell.org> writes:

> >>>>> "KKramsch" == KKramsch
> >>>>> <karlUNDERSCOREkramsch@yahooPERIODcom.invalid> writes:
> 
>     > How can one change the color of the prompt in Emacs'
>     > interactive shell?  For some reason, I'm getting a dark
>     > blue prompt over a black background which is very hard to
>     > read (I'm running emacs -nw).  (The commands I type at the
>     > prompt appear in light gray, so that's OK.)
> 
> M-x customize-face RET comint-highlight-prompt
> I used M-x list-faces-display to find that.

Perhaps. You can also use the standard color codes:

[pascal@naiad encours]$ . ~/.ansicodes
[pascal@naiad encours]$ export PS1="$RED$WHITE_BACK$PS1$NORMAL"
[pascal@naiad encours]$ # <== this appears in red over white.

~/.ansicodes contains:


#http://aspell.net/charsets/iso6429.html
#[...]
function CSI () {
    # CONTROL SEQUENCE INTRODUCER
    
    echo -n "^[["
}
#[...]
function SGR () {
    # SELECT GRAPHIC RENDITION
    
    echo -n "^[[$(semicolon='';res='';for arg in $@;do res=${res}${semicolon}${arg};semicolon=';';done;echo -n ${res})m"
}
#[...]

# Legacy variable. Please use the above functions.

export NORMAL="$(SGR 0)"
export BOLD="$(SGR 1)"
export UNDERLINE="$(SGR 4)"
export BLINK="$(SGR 5)"
export INVERT="$(SGR 7)"
export NO_BOLD="$(SGR 22)"
export NO_UNDERLINE="$(SGR 24)"
export NO_BLINK="$(SGR 25)"
export NO_INVERT="$(SGR 27)"
export BLACK="$(SGR 30)"
export RED="$(SGR 31)"
export GREEN="$(SGR 32)"
export YELLOW="$(SGR 33)"
export BLUE="$(SGR 34)"
export MAGENTA="$(SGR 35)"
export CYAN="$(SGR 36)"
export WHITE="$(SGR 37)"
export BLACK_BACK="$(SGR 40)"
export RED_BACK="$(SGR 41)"
export GREEN_BACK="$(SGR 42)"
export YELLOW_BACK="$(SGR 43)"
export BLUE_BACK="$(SGR 44)"
export MAGENTA_BACK="$(SGR 45)"
export CYAN_BACK="$(SGR 46)"
export WHITE_BACK="$(SGR 47)"

# [...]



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