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Date:	Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:31:51 -0400
To:	"Robert Mark Bram" <relaxedrob AT optushome DOT com DOT au>,
	"Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Use of PROMPTING
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At 08:26 AM 6/11/2002, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
>Howdy all!
>
>I am running Cygwin on W2K and I would like to know how to change my colors.
>I changed them in the properties section of the consols but it turns out
>this is only Windows settings and Cygwin's Bash goes on and uses its own
>colors irrespective.


Really?  How so?  It's always worked for me.  Perhaps you're not saving the
changes to the current short-cut?


>I had a look at man bash and found the section on PROMPTING. I didn't see
>any information on changing colors but I saw some old archive messages that
>mention this is the way to change them.
>
>Can anyone tell me if this is the way to change colors - and if so how?


Yes, this is a terminal-centric way of doing it.  You need to use escape
sequences and numeric codes to tell bash what to do.  This covers colors,
positioning, and a variety of other settings.  You may find "man terminfo"
helpful in interpreting all this.  HOWTOs for this at GNU sites may prove
more helpful in this regard.



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