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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:02:29 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: Alun Moon <alun DOT moon AT unn DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: changing terminal colours
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Hi!

Thursday, 17 May, 2001 Alun Moon alun DOT moon AT unn DOT ac DOT uk wrote:

AM> The default shell starts up with light text on a dark background.

AM> If I change the colours from the DOS-window properties menu, then
AM> although the colours change, things like the syntax highlighting in 
AM> vim don't respond to the changes...

things like syntax highlighting in vim are configured from within
things like vim itself. it's application task to configure terminal
colors

AM> What's the mechanism for changing the colours within cygwin?

similar to other unices -- to change color, send appropriate escape
sequence to terminal. cygwin terminal is supposed to be compatible
with vt100.

for example, try this in your cygwin window:

bash$ echo -e "\033[36;44m"

and see what happens.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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