Highlight shell prompt

[modemer]

Currently I am working on AIX/SUN/HP with tcsh,

set prompt = "%{\033[7m>>\033[m%} "
it will highlight the prompt, but there is a side effect on SUN, when I edit command line with cursor keys and backspace key, the command line is massed up.

Anyone has a good solution?

Thanks

 

[kHz]

rmso
smso

 

[modemer]

What's rmso/smso please?

 

[modemer]

Ok, you are talking about tput, how does it work with shell prompt? could you give an example?

 

[kHz]

tput smso #turns on highlighting
tput rmso #turns off hightlighting

 

[kHz]

tput smul #turns on underlining
tput rmul #turns off underlining

 

[modemer]

Thanks khz, looks like it highlights everthing. But I just want to highlight "prompt"

Anyway, thanks for your answer.

 

[kHz]

prompt="`uname -n`"
onbold="`tput smso`"
offbold="`tput rmso`"
export PS1="$onbold$prompt$offbold

 

[modemer]

khz, thanks for your example. It works perfectly with ksh. But my original question is for tcsh. Any example? I've tried similar with your example, but it doesn't work.