Please help with terminal settings

[slanning at BUPHY.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 bill at horne.net wrote:
>How do I "lock" the text login console to double-bright mode?
[...]
>I've been wading through the termcap and terminfo help pages with no
>luck. Setterm -bold only works until the next command executes.

I can get it to bold a little longer with

    $ echo -e "^[[1m"

where the first "^[" indicates a literal ESCAPE character. [1]
`man console_codes` for more details. ;)

Note that it will reset if you do certain things, like `ls`
with colors, start something like `emacs -nw`, etc..
So, my next effort is to put that console code into
the prompt:

    $ export PS1='^[[1m[\w]'

where again "^[" represents a literal ESC, and the "[\w]"
at the end is just my regular prompt. It seems to work
so far (with the caveat that things like printing with
colors will list as normal).


[1] To insert a character literally at the prompt,
do C-v C-q followed by the character, where C-v means
holding the CTRL key down while pressing the 'v' key.
In emacs, precede the character with C-q.