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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:32:47 -0800
From: Jim Kleckner <jek_subs AT kleckner DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal
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I see, very nice!  The synopsis with "for the X window system" led me 
astray and prevented me from looking at it.

Some mention of this would be very good to put in the documentation here:
   http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-files.html

Just a mention that rxvt is a good alternative for the default windows 
terminal emulator and that it doesn't require X on Windows but works
with it if present.

Thanks!  Jim

Lapo Luchini wrote:

> Jim Kleckner wrote:
> 
>>> Have a look at the man page and my .Xdefaults[1]...
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the suggestion. I'm currently using the bare cmd.exe of 
>> Win2k and didn't want to have to start X11 just to get a terminal 
>> emulator.  It seems heavy - is this really necessary?  There is 
>> probably some magic thing to say in inputrc or terminfo to specify 
>> these colors but it has been 20 years since I waded into 
>> termcap/terminfo.  The manual mentions set_foreground and 
>> set_background but it requires a lot of digging to sort out.  I was 
>> hoping someone could point the way or say "there be dragons". 
> 
> 
> Cygwin's rxvt port is quite cool, actually: can BOTH run with and 
> without X11.
> 


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