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From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com>
Subject:  Re: Color Schemes
Date:  Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:39:47 -0500
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Dave Korn wrote:
> 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".

I suspected as much, but hedged my bet. Besides, you never know what 
newbie is actually /searching the archives/ :-). (Complaint in no way 
directed at you, Richard).

> Unfortunately I don't know anything about how to make cygwin aware of these
> colours.

Aware? Cygwin is never aware of them; that's the point. All the terminal 
knows is '1;32', '0;37', etc. It is the job of the terminal emulator to 
decide how to present those. That's the whole point of my suggestion to 
change them at that level, where the underlying programs *don't* know a 
thing about it. That way they can't break it. :-)

It sounds to me like what Richard is currently doing is changing the 
color code used for the default background (which will cause problems), 
rather than leaving it alone and changing the presentation of the 
various color codes.

-- 
Matthew
Now where did I put my hippo?


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