tcsh file autocompletion colors

joel@

joel@

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I'm looking for a way to adjust the autocompletion colors in tcsh. I'm a zsh user, but I'm coming back to tcsh from time to time. In zsh I have the following in my .zshrc in order to get colorized output:

Code: 
zmodload zsh/complist
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors 'di=01;33:ln=35:so=32:pi=33:ex=31:bd=34;46:cd=34;43:su=30;41:sg=30;46:tw=30;42:ow=30;43:'

This allows me to control the autocompletion colors shown when I do a:

Code: 
vim<SPACE><TAB>

I've also synchronized the above colors with my ls colors, resulting in the following snippet from my .zshrc:

Code: 
zmodload zsh/complist
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors
'di=01;33:ln=35:so=32:pi=33:ex=31:bd=34;46:cd=34;43:su=30;41:sg=30;46:tw=30;42:ow=30;43:'

export LSCOLORS="Dxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad"

I can't seem to get this working in tcsh though. LSCOLORS is no problem, but I can't find any knob for the autocompletion colors. Let me illustrate the problem: Using zsh with the above setting, I can do ls and get the following colorized output:

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Again with zsh, and this time testing colorized autocompletion by doing vim<SPACE><TAB>:

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Now, let's try tcsh instead. ls looks like this:

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...and now autocompletion with tcsh by doing vim<SPACE><TAB>:

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Anyone got any ideas?
 
Solved it. This did the trick:

Code: 
setenv LS_COLORS "di=01;33:ln=35:so=32:pi=33:ex=31:bd=34;46:cd=34;43:su=30;41:sg=30;46:tw=30;42:ow=30;43:"

I thought LS_COLORS was something Linux used for setting your ls colors, but apparently tcsh wants it for autocompletion as well. Confusing...
 
Didn't work for me. Am I doing something wrong?

I'm using tcsh under FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 in KDE "konsole" terminal.

I did (I know, the first line overrode my LSCOLORS):
Code: 
$ setenv LSCOLORS "Dxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad"
$ setenv LS_COLORS "di=01;33:ln=35:so=32:pi=33:ex=31:bd=34;46:cd=34;43:su=30;41:sg=30;46:tw=30;42:ow=30;43:"

Code: 
$ echo $LS_COLORS; echo $LSCOLORS
di=01;33:ln=35:so=32:pi=33:ex=31:bd=34;46:cd=34;43:su=30;41:sg=30;46:tw=30;42:ow=30;43:
Dxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad

Working great in ls, but there is no colored output in autocompletion. For example:
vim<SPACE><CTRL+D>
 
joel@ said:
Do you have
Code: 
set color
in your .tcshrc? If not, add it.
Click to expand...

Thanks a lot, it worked. Probably it's also the reason why lscolors doesn't work under Kubuntu in tcsh at work (maybe BASH is awesome for scripting, but using it in the console killing me).
 
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