Re: backtick with colors

[Micah Cowan]

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JuanPablo wrote:
> hi,
>   I try make a backtick with automatic change of colors
> example
> #!/bin/bash
> #file name sbacktick
> cadena="Bright red on white"
> echo -e "\033[47m\033[1;31m $cadena \033[0m"
> 
> in screenrc
> backtick 1 60 60 $HOME/bin/sbacktick
> 
> but no working ... the message is show with normal colors.
> any idea ?
> many thanks.

Actually, you can send the same string escapes in a backtick command, as
you can in the caption/hardstatus, except that instead of sending a %,
you must send \005. So:

  echo -e "\005{= wR} $cadena \005{-}"

May be what you need.

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Micah J. Cowan
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Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
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