[Ovmsdev] Command prompt in secure mode

[Stephen Casner]

I'm fine with not setting a color on the prompts.  Perhaps the color
should also be removed from the welcome banner?

                                                        -- Steve

On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:

> 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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