display background job completion status conspicuously: xterm-color

completion of background jobs my tcshell issues missives of the sort:


[1] + Done foo_command bar_arg1 bar_arg2

This single-line output gets woven into the normal output lines and so is
sometimes hard to see. Is there a way to make this more conspicuous by
using "red" or "inverse text" or "bold" or some such? I am using xterm-
color and already have a lot of "eye-candy" (ls color listings; vim syntax
highlighting etc.) so this might also be possible?

Any settings / hacks that people can recommend?

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Rahul

2008-07-1, 16:22(+00), Rahul:
completion of background jobs my tcshell issues missives of the sort:
>
>
[1] + Done foo_command bar_arg1 bar_arg2
>
This single-line output gets woven into the normal output lines and so is
sometimes hard to see. Is there a way to make this more conspicuous by
using "red" or "inverse text" or "bold" or some such? I am using xterm-
color and already have a lot of "eye-candy" (ls color listings; vim syntax
highlighting etc.) so this might also be possible?
>
Any settings / hacks that people can recommend?

I think you'll have to patch the source code of the shell. I
don't know of any shell that allows to customise that output. In
a number of shells, you can choose for those messages to be
displayed asynchronously (that is only just before displaying a
prompt) I don't know if it's the case for tcsh.

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S