Ian Balchin wrote: > > Karsten & Matthew, > > Thanks, you have cleared up the mysteries for me. Well, > almost..... > > .... soooo, if Debian is looking for a bashrc or profile file, it > won't mind if it has a dot in front or not, right? :>
Not exactly... If it's in your home directory, it's got a dot. If it's in /etc, it hasn't. > I printed out the BashPrompt-HOWTO and can play with the prompt at > the prompt. > > Joe should colorise, the local university have it running on Free- > BSD in glorious yellow text on red, but can find nothing in the > docs or config file. When you say 'colorise', do you mean basic text/background colour, or do you mean syntax highlighting? Vim does syntax highlighting - a C source file will have comments in blue, variable keywords in green, branch keywords in yellow, constants in red, etc. I don't think Joe supports this. > Really shouldn't Debian install with an option for color? You can always make the suggestion. Matthew
