2

I just switched from bash to zsh and now I am trying to find out, how to colorize the Username and Host to have different color shemes. With bash my colorsheme looked like that: (orange)user (blue)@ (red)hostname

I couldn't find any good guide or explanation on how to seperate this and when I look at my actual .zshrc

 if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
 PROMPT=$'%F{%(#.blue.green)}┌──${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)──}(%B%F{%(#.red.blue)}%n%(#..㉿)%m%b%F{%(#.    blue.green)})-[%B%F{reset}%(6~.%-1~/…/%4~.%5~)%b%F{%(#.blue.green)}]\n└─%B%(#.%F{red}#.%F{blue}$)%b%F{reset} '
 RPROMPT=$'%(?.. %? %F{red}%B⨯%b%F{reset})%(1j. %j %F{yellow}%B⚙%b%F{reset}.)'

I can't figure out, what could be the current user and host color.

G4nja Wizard
  • 21

1 Answers1

1
%F{%(#.red.blue)}%n
  • %n expands to your account name, so the colour set immediately before that is what matters.
  • %F expands to the control sequence that sets the foreground colour to whatever is enclosed by the braces, which can be a colour name such as blue amongst other things.
  • %(#.red.blue) is a ternary prompt expansion, that tests the shell process's current user ID (specified by the #) against zero (by default), and expands to red for user ID zero and blue otherwise.

Further reading

JdeBP
  • 68,745