Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!gryphon!jdow From: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Fun with prompts! Summary: Clever prompt hack... Message-ID: <9026@gryphon.COM> Date: 28 Nov 88 06:18:12 GMT References: <9980@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) Organization: Wizardess Designs, Hermosa Beach, Ca. Lines: 26 In article <9980@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes: >Something neat I discovered and thought I'd pass on ... > >If you look in the sample shell.startup in the 1.3 S: dir, there are >2 aliases specified ... reverse and normal ... which change the screen >to white and back to blue ( assuming normal colours ) > > prompt "*E[33m[*E[31m%S*[33m]*E31m >" > Ah well, podnah how about trying this one? "prompt "*E[43m{@_@} %N*E[42m%c*E[0m*N*E[42m %g*E[0m " I use that'n with wshell. It works just fine. (Actually I have the *E's replaced with actual escape characters in my script that starts this whole mess...) Me do something silly? Moi! -- Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one. {@_@} jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM the knight. Does the fair maiden ever {backbone}!gryphon!jdow win? Surely both the knight and dragon stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide? Better yet - she should get an Amiga and quit playing with dragons and knights.