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Re: color AmigaShell out there?
« on: May 09, 2013, 10:00:45 PM »
The bog standard Shell from Commodore actually has support for colours, although what colour you get depends on your Workbench palette. You can use escape codes to set the foreground and background pens and a lot of other stuff, too (don't remember them now so don't ask me :). There are several commands supporting this, at least one port of "ls" does different colours for directories.
However, if you want to run stuff like vim with correct colouring, I guess you need something that can do proper terminal emulation. The only one I know of for Amiga is ViNCEd but there might be others.
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Re: color AmigaShell out there?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2013, 08:58:17 AM »
Quote from: nyteschayde;734513
Here is a screen shot showing 30-37 and 90-97. 90-97 are supposed to bright versions of 30-37. This is running in VINCEd.


Also note that unless you use a tool to lock specific numbered pens in the Workbench palette, these are subject to change. When needed, Workbench will allocate "unused" colours for displaying images etc.
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