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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:17:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Colors in Cygwin window
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Alex Vinokur wrote:

> How can we change colors in Cygwin window ?
>
> I can change 'screen text and screen background' using windows properties.
> However I dont know how to change 'prompt color'.
>    Thanks in advance,
>    Alex Vinokur

Alex,
In your /etc/profile, find a line starting with 'export PS1=' (there may
be several, find the one for bash).  In the value of PS1 you'll see
"escape sequences" (things starting with \033).  The escape sequences that
change the colors are of the form '\033[99m', where 99 is the 2-digit
color value (same as in dircolors, 'dircolors --print-database' for
details).  Change the color values to something more pleasing, or remove
the escape sequences altogether for the default foreground color.
Hope this helps,
	Igor
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