[GRASS-dev] Custom GRASS command line prompt

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Monday 29 of July 2013 17:29:29 Hamish wrote:
> Hamish wrote:
> > # example of adding an RGB border color with a #RRGGBB code:
> > echo -ne "\033]11;#53186f\007"
> 
> ...
> 
> > But I think changing the border with a RGB color per mapset
> > or location would scale better if you were having a different
> > color for each mapset/location.
> > Or, for the "MASK present" I'd prefer a red terminal border to the
> > extra line on the command prompt, so it might be nice to search out
> > what the different escape codes for gnome-terminal et al. might be.
> 
> hmm, doesn't work so well.
> 
> this sets the border color in xterm:
> 
> echo -e "\e]11;#aa186f\007"
> CLEAR='\e[2J\e[1;1H'
> echo -ne "\e[37m\e[40m$CLEAR"
> unset CLEAR
> 
> ..for the internalBorder Xresource (xterm -b), but as soon as something
> wraps around column 80 it stops being the border color and becomes the
> background color.
> 
> it would be nice to figure a way to get the border color working properly
> though since it seems like a nice way to do it.

Yep, it makes "everything" magenta-like. A pity this doesn't work as wanted.  
Really good idea.  We can always ask... at stackexchange?

Nikos
> 
> Hamish