Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/02/14/16:19:39
At 04:09 PM 2/14/01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:57:59PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
>>Hi!
>>
>>currently,
>>
>>echo -e "\033[1;666mhey, i'm bold!"
>>
>>command don't switch to bold on cygwin console. it does so on linux,
>>however. the reason is this fragment
>>
>> default:
>> fg = default_color & (FOREGROUND_BLUE | FOREGROUND_GREEN |
>> FOREGROUND_RED);
>> bg = default_color & (BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_GREEN |
>> BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
>> bold = default_color & FOREGROUND_INTENSITY;
>> break;
>>
>>in fhandler_console::char_command. shouldn't this code be eliminated?
>
>Are you saying that the 666 is causing incorrect behavior? If so, I think
>I agree. Why should cygwin be setting any defaults at all if it doesn't
>understand the numeric code?
>
>cgf
Probably because I did it years ago and I don't know any better!;-)
If you or someone want me to submit a patch which removes these lines
of code, let me know.
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
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