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 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:27:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Robert Bram cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: exiting vim changes background colour of console In-Reply-To: <88ACCA0E0A7A914DAFBA3918021605D24E3FCF@WPEXCH08.colesmyer.ad.cmltd.net.au> Message-ID: References: <88ACCA0E0A7A914DAFBA3918021605D24E3FCF@WPEXCH08.colesmyer.ad.cmltd.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Robert Bram wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > > > == > > > I am finding that when I exit from vim, it turns my background > > > back into black (which is how I had it before I tried changing > > > it today). Is there a setting or something I have forgotten to > > > change? > > > == > > > Actually this is happenning not just after vim.. but even after I exit > > > "less"! > > > > Works for me. Did you close the console window and re-open one after > > changing the colors? Before doing this, the console colors are known > > to be scrambled as you describe above. > > Yes I closed and re-opened the console and the problem recurs. :-/ vim (and less, since you seem to have the same problem there) use something called an "alternate screen". This is a feature of the terminal that allows the program to make arbitrary modifications to the terminal screen that will be undone when the program switches back to the main screen. In particular, any color changes will be undone. Consequently, if you wish to change the color of the main screen, don't do this while running vim or less. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/