Bug#526402: bash: syntax highlighting would be pretty and useful

2011-09-17 Thread Guido van Steen
The developers of bash never showed a lot of interest for the feature you request (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2009-08/msg00019.html). You might try fizsh instead, which provides a zsh implementation of syntax-highlighting. Fizsh is available in Debian unstable ( http://packages.deb

Bug#526402: bash: syntax highlighting would be pretty and useful

2009-04-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: wishlist Thanks for maintaining debian's bash package. It's my preferred language for day to day work. The main reason I'm writing is that it occurred to me that bash's command line could be made a.) prettier and b.) more useful with syntax high