[Ovmsdev] Command prompt in secure mode

[Mark Webb-Johnson]

I tried not changing colours at all. Just leave that at whatever the terminal program has chosen.

Committed for people to look at. Again, just a proposal - feel free to play.

Regards, Mark

> On 18 Mar 2018, at 4:35 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson <mark at webb-johnson.net> wrote:
> 
> My $0.02 is I like the “OVMS >” vs “OVMS #” (very clear), but the red colour doesn’t do it for me.
> 
> In fact, in general we have green for OK and red for ERROR, which is the same for the ESP_LOG messages.
> 
> So, how about leave both consoles green colour, or just plain white?
> 
> Regards, Mark.
> 
>> On 18 Mar 2018, at 2:51 PM, Greg D. <gregd2350 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Steve,
>> 
>> Like the new prompt, not so convinced about the color.  Being color
>> blind, it's a lot more of a nuisance than it's worth, especially when
>> there is such a variability in displays.  And, it's not like we're
>> accessing something so highly sensitive that we need blinking fonts,
>> warning claxons, and colored text.  My $.02, keep the pound sign, leave
>> the color the same.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen Casner wrote:
>>> At Mark's request I have implemented a change to the command prompt
>>> after switching to secure mode:
>>> 
>>> OVMS > ena
>>> Password:
>>> Secure mode
>>> OVMS #
>>> 
>>> As implemented in this commit, the color also changes from green to
>>> red, but that is only a proposal.  I also looked at blue, but on my
>>> terminal it's not so distinct from black.  If preferred, we can have
>>> both modes be green.
>>> 
>>> Actually, as I thought about this, I wondered whether our console
>>> welcome banner and prompt should be different from green since all the
>>> info-level log messages are green.  But there are not many ANSI color
>>> choices and they don't look the same on all terminals, so we can't get
>>> carried away with this.
>>> 
>>>                                                       -- Steve
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