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...
2005-06-12 19:17:19 UTC in hilite