Applescript to restore foreground color doesn't work

Question

When I attempt to restore a MacOS terminal window's default color by executing the following:

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to set current settings of window 1 to settings set \"Homebrew\""

the Terminal background color is restored to the Homebrew default, but not the foreground color. Doing it explicitly also has no effect:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set normal text color of window 1 to {47802, 61423, 16448, 0}'

Oddly, when I execute an ls (LSCOLORS are on) immediately after the above, colors are restored to the correct state. Any idea what might be going on or how to fix it?

Also, there's nothing in the PS string to change the color as part of the prompt. Hitting return a couple times has no effect. Neither does executing something harmless like echo. Thanks!

Answer 1

This is interesting, because I cannot reproduce your error. What system are you running ? For reference, here are my relevant system details:

System info: AppleScript version: "2.7", system version: "10.13.6" (High Sierra)

One thing to note, is that current settings and normal text color are properties that are ascribed to tabs of Terminal, and not windows. Therefore, one thing you could try is:

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to ¬
          set current settings of tab 1 of window 1 to ¬
          settings set \"Homebrew\""

However, if I'm being honest, I'm not expecting this to solve your problem, since your piece of code works just fine on my system.