Enabling Colors in ksh88
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



I won't lie. I'm a Linux user. At the very least, I'm a semi-up-to-date 'nix
command line user and I work on AIX far more than I'd like. I intend no offense
to you AIX guys out there. My frustration with it is primarily korn shell;
Others fustrations including the fact that every package IBM releases for it is
between 15 to 25 years old, and its ever-leaning tendancies towards non-Unix
ways of doing things (eg: smitty, odm, init binaries instead of scripts, etc.).

However, it is what it is. If you like frivolus things such as color in your
terminal, you may have noticed that putting it in your .profile doesn't work
super well. It turns out that ksh88 won't recognize the \e or the \033
characters in place of the actual esc character (no, you're not doing anything
wrong). What you need to do instead is hit the following key sequence in vi to
get an actual escape character

* Go into insert mode
* Press ctrl+v
* Hit the escape key on your keyboard

You should now see something like **^[**. This represents an escape key
press. All of your color-set sequences should be the same right after
this character.

For an example, Creating bold text might look like...

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[1mBold text[0m
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// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
