Re: colored bash prompt

["Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz norma perm ru>]

Hi.

On 18.06.2014 21:05, Mike Smithson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:48:55 -0700, Eugene M. Zheganin
> <emz norma perm ru> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to have a colored prompt in mc when both panels are on ?
> > It's colored in a subshell when panels are off (after a couple of
> > Enters) but not when panels are on.
>
> I tried that once. I wanted my root login prompt to be bright red or
> something.
>
> What I recall is the extra characters used to color the prompt messes
> up the
> line length calculations used by readline or whatever command line
> library you
> use.
Do you mean original shell or mc subshell ? In latter case I want to
unstuck and try it out. How do I do this ?

Thanks.