hilite

Zsh is much more powerful shell than bash, and you can use almost all constructs of bash in zsh.
This is a short howto for zsh

2. Put something like

Code:
[[ $hilite = "on" ]] || hilite="on" exec hilite zsh

into one of your initialisation files


3. The prompt is sometimes returned before the hilite does the colouring so I find it useful to put something into precmd():

Code:
precmd () {sleep 0}


The colouring does not work on ttys on the computers I use; nonetheless hilite can easily be patched (you can also change the colour). So what I do is

Code:

patch hilite-1.5.c <<EOF
36c36
< #define HEADER "\033[91m"
---
> #define HEADER "\033[1m\033[31m"
EOF