Martin Ammermueller wrote:
> I've started to use the (pd)ksh this weekend
> and I wonder if it's possible to alias
> the ^M (Return|Newline)-character?
> 
> Background: I want to coloring the command-line
> and the programm-output in a different color...

Can you not set $PS1 to something to achieve the same affect?  Assuming an
xterm/vt100, you could do :

	_hostname=`hostname`
	_user=`whoami`
	export PS1="^[[1m$_hostname:$_user $^[[m "

in your $HOME/.profile to get the prompt in bold.  The "^[" sequence is the
escape character - you can enter this with <ctrl-V>, then <escape>.

These escape sequences are the ones that (for example) the curses library
uses to maniplulate the screen.  If you look at /usr/share/misc/termcap and
the manual page termcap (5) and look at the m? values for bold/reverse/etc.
and the AB/AF values for background and foreground, you can set various
combinations.  For example, for our xterm (which is derived from the
xterm-xf86-v32 and xterm-xf86-v33 entries) :

	export PS1="^[[31;43m$_hostname:$_user $^[[m "

would give red on yellow text for the prompt.

J

PS.  You can also try the combinations by using printf , e.g.

	printf "\033[31;43m$_hostname:$_user $\033[m "

PPS.  For csh, use `set prompt=` instead of `export PS1=`.

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