Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020611101923.04d30fb0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:31:51 -0400 To: "Robert Mark Bram" , "Cygwin" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Use of PROMPTING In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:26 AM 6/11/2002, Robert Mark Bram wrote: >Howdy all! > >I am running Cygwin on W2K and I would like to know how to change my colors. >I changed them in the properties section of the consols but it turns out >this is only Windows settings and Cygwin's Bash goes on and uses its own >colors irrespective. Really? How so? It's always worked for me. Perhaps you're not saving the changes to the current short-cut? >I had a look at man bash and found the section on PROMPTING. I didn't see >any information on changing colors but I saw some old archive messages that >mention this is the way to change them. > >Can anyone tell me if this is the way to change colors - and if so how? Yes, this is a terminal-centric way of doing it. You need to use escape sequences and numeric codes to tell bash what to do. This covers colors, positioning, and a variety of other settings. You may find "man terminfo" helpful in interpreting all this. HOWTOs for this at GNU sites may prove more helpful in this regard. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/