I have set up my bash shell so that any commands I type appear in bold and the commands' output is shown in normal weight:
I did this by adding \e[01m
at the end of my PS1
variable to turn on bold, and using trap DEBUG
to turn it off:
trap 'printf "\e[0m" "$_"' DEBUG
That way, the \e[0m
is printed before each command is executed and I get normal font weight in the output.
How would I go about getting the same effect in zsh
?
Best Answer
The old-fashioned way was to use
POSTEDIT
(and by the way this isn't bash, don't use a DEBUG trap to simulate
preexec
: zsh is where it's from) but since zsh 4.3.11 you can use the command line syntax highlighting facility. Let your prompt care only about your prompt and set