Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 07:43:48 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) From: "Sagar R. Shah" To: Cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sources: rxvt-2.7.2-1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: srs29@imap.hermes.cam.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 12 May 2001, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > rxvt -fn Courier-13 -sr -ls -title bash -tn cygwin > > (having set SHEL=/bin/bash beforehand) > > This gives colour straight away, just thought i'd share it. > > I think you really need the "--login -i" though Doesn't seem to make a difference whether i put it in or not (i'm still logged in as the default user and have my .profile executed, maybe it's cos i'm setting SHELL=/bin/bash explicitly before hand) >, and IIRC the "cygwin" term > type is deprecated. Here's the all-time best rxvt invocation ;-), which I > use: > > C:\unix\bin\rxvt.exe -sr -sl 1000 -fn "Lucida Console-bold-14" -tn > rxvt -ls -e bash --login -i > > Gets you color, a nice readable font, a 1000-line scrollback buffer, the > scrollbar on the RIGHT as God intended it, the whole shebang. Ah...it gets you colour in things like lynx and when you do ls with colour turned on, but does it get you colour in vim? didn't for me.... -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple