X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Color Schemes Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:13:51 +0100 Message-ID: <04ba01c6cc81$93337b70$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 30 August 2006 23:02, mwoehlke wrote: > Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: >> Noobie cygwin alert! >> >> Hopefully this isn't too verbose... > > Well, I stopped reading about halfway through... Just a moment too soon, alas. >> I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all that. >> But I can't handle the default color scheme. My eyes are too old. >> >> So I changed the colors in cygwin DOS-like shell preferences to black >> foreground and white background. > If you are using the CUI (started your shell from a .bat file or ran > bash.exe directly), right-click the title bar, pick 'properties' and go > to the 'colors' tab (you might also find the 'font' tab useful; it will > let you change the text size). I believe that's exactly what he meant by "dos-like shell preferences". Unfortunately I don't know anything about how to make cygwin aware of these colours. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/