Re: coloured prompt for root (was ... Re: Reporting missing package during install)

2013-12-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:13:18PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Chris Bannister writes: This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other virtual terminal. The virtual terminals usually honour ANSI escape sequences. For sure xterm, the rxvt family and the

coloured prompt for root (was ... Re: Reporting missing package during install)

2013-12-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:11:34PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 10 December 2013 06:39:17 Tom H wrote: You can't trust yourself with sudo but you can trust yourself with su or login root access... I have to make a conscious effort to become root. This reduces the risk that I will

coloured prompt for root (was ... Re: Reporting missing package during install)

2013-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Chris Bannister writes: This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other virtual terminal. The virtual terminals usually honour ANSI escape sequences. For sure xterm, the rxvt family and the libvte-based ones do. But with virtual terminals you can do something like