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: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:08:59 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Escape sequence "^[[1m" no longer makes console text bright Message-ID: <20010601220859.C7592@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000901c0dfd8$e4947b40$4500f98c@EMMAROSE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <000901c0dfd8$e4947b40$4500f98c@EMMAROSE>; from litterio@pyxsys.net on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:26:59PM -0400 On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:26:59PM -0400, Francis Litterio wrote: >I upgraded from Cygwin 1.1.6 to 1.3.1 (under Windows 2000), and I notice >that the console escape sequence generated by "tput bold" is no longer >making text bright. Here's what I see: > > bash$ echo $TERM > cygwin > bash$ echo "hello $(tput bold)foo$(tput sgr0) there" > hello foo there <== "foo" is normal; was bright in 1.1.6. > bash$ tput bold | od -c > 0000000 033 [ 1 m > 0000004 > bash$ tput sgr0 | od -c > 0000000 033 [ 0 ; 1 0 m > 0000007 > >I think this may be related to why I see all the highlighted keywords in >man pages in half-bright mode instead of bright mode. I'm not using a >personal TERMINFO database -- just the one in /usr/share/terminfo. > >I could swear that this is the same escape sequence for "bold" that >worked fine under Cygwin 1.1.6. Could the Cygwin library be >initializing the console differently somehow, so that the console >interprets the "^[[1m" differently now? I just tried this and ^[[1m correctly turned bold on for me. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple