I want to make my hostname in my terminal orange. How do I do that?
First off, I'm not sure what terminal you're using or if it will even support the color orange. Mine supports the following: Red, Blue, Green, Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Black & White. And here's how I get colors in my terminal:
You need to first load the colors using autoload
. I use the following to load the colors and assign them to meaningful names
#load colors
autoload colors && colors
for COLOR in RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN BLACK WHITE; do
eval $COLOR='%{$fg_no_bold[${(L)COLOR}]%}' #wrap colours between %{ %} to avoid weird gaps in autocomplete
eval BOLD_$COLOR='%{$fg_bold[${(L)COLOR}]%}'
done
eval RESET='%{$reset_color%}'
You can set the hostname in your prompt using the %m
string. So to set, say a red hostname, you'd do
${RED}%m${WHITE}\>
which will print something like bneil.so>