Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:49:41 -0400 From: James E Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: $PS1 does not render command-line prompt in color in a FreeBSD VM Message-ID: <f3f6e40e-285c-dfa6-2759-34e1a76fb8c4@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20161012172419.GA18676@archlinux.localdomain> References: <d2b31340-dac9-fb6a-ba31-1ec8ac3707e2@verizon.net> <CADTH-otwNc8VX=NHxrJ6hAbe2H9k1uy7P127VTXALNsfctRJbA@mail.gmail.com> <208d3ae0-78ea-853f-6c48-6a74e1d61253@verizon.net> <20161012172419.GA18676@archlinux.localdomain>
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On 10/12/2016 01:24 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 01:09:50PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: >> On 10/12/2016 12:16 PM, Roger Pate wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:56 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net> wrote: >>>> This question concerns display of colors in the command-line prompt on two >>>> different FreeBSD installations. >>> >>>> ... which in the terminal looks like: >>>> >>>> [jkeenan] $ >>>> >>>> where 'jkeenan' is in red and all the rest is in white. So far so good. >>>> >>>> Yesterday I installed FreeBSD-11 as a VM on the same Linux host -- only this >>>> time I switched to using VMWare to house the VM. I brought over my >>>> .profile, .shrc, .vimrc, etc., files from the 10.3 VM to this new one. I >>>> expected them to Just Work. However the terminal inside the VMWare console >>>> seems to be unable to digest the codes for color in the assignment to $PS1. >>>> That value for $PS1 is rendering as: >>>> >>>> [[31mjkeenan[0m] $ >>>> >>>> ... all rendered in white; nothing in red. The control sequences to change >>>> from white to red and back again are simply being literally displayed. >>> >>> How did you "bring over" your files from one VM to the other? Did >>> your escape characters get stripped? If they did, that would explain >>> what you see. >>> >> >> The files were wrapped in a tarball and scp-ed. The control characters in >> the assignment to PS1 did not get stripped. I examined them via 'od -c' on >> each VM and the control character 033 is present where expected in both >> cases. > > Just to confirm it has nothing to do with the transfer of the config files or > the VM, I have a similar $PS1 scheme, also using sh as my shell, and have the > same problem after upgrading from 10.3 to 11; this all on bare metal upgraded > in-place, no file transfers needed. > > I haven't had time to debug yet, just wanted to get this out there to confirm > this is not a local issue. It clearly is a bug and has been reported here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211360 I've entered a comment in that bug ticket to the effect that this is a regression with respect to user-friendliness. If you share that opinion, please feel free to enter a comment there. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan
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