How may I translate the following coloring that I had previously on OSX .bashrc to work with ZSH .zshrc?
This was my original coloring setting with .bashrc:
export PS1="\e[0;32m\u@\h\e[0m \e[0;34m\W\e[0m \e[0;35m\$\e[0m "
With ZSH this coloring doesn't work (it's shown as typed in plaintext). How can I translate it to the color syntax that ZSH requires?
zsh is a bit simpler. Details can be found in man zshmisc.
# No export needed
PS1='%F{green}%n@%m%f %F{blue}%1~%f %F{magenta}%#%f '
You can change the foreground and background colors by name, palette number, or RGB specifications using %F and %K; no raw ANSI escape sequences needed (and hence no need to wrap them in the zsh equivalent of \[...\]; zsh knows how to calculate the length of a prompt containing its own % escape sequences). %f (and %k) restore the terminal default colors.
The other escapes map as follows:
bash zsh
\u %n
\h %m
\W %1~ Note you can choose how many path components to show
\$ %#