Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <49C55B27AA8FD411A30300508BCF7B70310C05@catalina.unn.ac.uk> From: Alun Moon To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: changing terminal colours Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:16:43 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > From: egor duda [mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru]> for example, try this in your cygwin window: > > bash$ echo -e "\033[36;44m" I get the blue background, but it is not permanent. Having looked through the syntax files for vim (html4), I found the line if &background == "dark" which suggests that there is a setting somewhere that I can set to background = "light" or am I well and truly off key... Alun -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple