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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:19 pm

Is it possible to color specific words instead of the entire line?

I currently use
#co {line} color

But sometimes this will catch a line of my prompt as well which just looks silly.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Use #cw

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:03 pm

AH! Much better options. Thanks for the help Matt... The "search" function in CMUD sucks compared to the searching in zMUD

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:24 pm

i dunno, if you go to the color helpfile, you can see the CW helpfile to the left, granted, thats a bit indirect, but they do try to put as much common knowledge at your fingertips as possible

PS, check out #HELP %colorname

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:36 pm

Once you find the right helpfile sure. My comment was more of "search" actually doesn't do anything. Example is shown in the screenshot below.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/591/searchoy.png

Step 1. Go to Help>Search
Step 2. Type your query in the search field
Step 3. Press Enter or Click "Search"
Step 4. Steps 1-3 were useless, not just dig through all topics on the left to find one you think fits what you want.

Now as a side note.

If you do know the command you want (still going with color here) you can get great results by searching the command.
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9707/color2e.png -- showing results of #color instead of color

In this case I probably should have actually done the search again with the command once I found it.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

I believe that's exactly the same search function that existed in Zmud help--it simply lists all the help topics that contain that word(s). Can you describe what results you would expect to see in a search for "color"?

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

That's exactly what it does. The problem with a search term like "color" is that the helps are stored in HTML format, so your search will find every topic that has text in a different color in it because that looks something like "<span style="color: red">....</span>" internally. Probably technically a bug.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:11 am

CMUD supports the majority of the ANSI control set. This means that you can enter colors (as well as other display commands) in this fashion:

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

There's no need to do it the way Anaristos described (first code block). If you want to put together an ansi-formatted string, simply use %ansi(). There are some technical differences between the ansi codes generated by %ansi() and the raw ansi codes--a result of the specific format terms you are applying, such as bold or italic--you learn about in the ansi spec, but the results will always look the same either way.