On 11 Jun 2015 18:10, Thomas Wolff wrote: > as opposed to having a fancy colored prompt, I would like to be able to > set up coloring of the whole bash command input line (but not the > following command output). This could be achieved by adding a variable > like "AFTERPROMPT_COMMAND" which is executed after a prompt line is > completed (or "PS9" which is output after a prompt line is completed). > It could even be a nice idea to configure this behavior separately for > bash and readline, so the users have a choice whether to color just > command input, readline-handled program input, or both. > I would appreciate this feature, and maybe even supply a patch if I had > a clue where to hook it in...
this is already doable -- leave the end of PS1 enabling color. PS1='\[\e[0;33m\]$ \[\e[34;1m\]' this will color the input buffer blue -mike
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