Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020611101923.04d30fb0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:31:51 -0400 To: "Robert Mark Bram" , "Cygwin" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Use of PROMPTING In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/