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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:17:01 -0800
From: Jim Kleckner <jek_subs AT kleckner DOT net>
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Subject: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal
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I promise that I have searched a whole bunch to
find the answer to this question.  I would be
happy just to get pointers in the right direction
to look.  It appears that some programs use
termcap and some use terminfo.

I have mostly gotten my bash colors to display
properly with black on white which I find
considerably more pleasing than white on black
(the default cmd.exe colors).  One does this by
just creating a shortcut to the cygwin.bat file,
right-click on properties on the shortcut, and
setting the colors and layout.

Programs like info, man, and cpan, however, do not
know about these switched default colors.  Trying
to eliminate color altogether also doesn't seem to
work.  Try setting TERM=ansi-mono, invoke a bash
subshell just for good luck, then type "man man"
and notice the continued use of color and
invisible white on white highlighted text.

Has anyone done this successfully and can you give
a pointer to the documentation to do this?

Many thanks - Jim


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