X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_RX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/b8GnjxxFZJS/ECFfvTmYK Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:15:12 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Bold color in "cygwin bash shell" Message-ID: <20121017191512.GA13783@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:04:02PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Saurabh T wrote: >>For various reasons, I cannot switch to rxvt or similar, and am stuck >>using the cygwin bash shell (which runs on top of the dos cmd window). >> >>Here, the background color defaults to black and foreground to light. >>I reversed this using the dos window -> Properties -> Colors. >> >>However the bold color does not change. This causes for example man >>pages to be displayed badly (light text on light background). >> >>Is there anything that can be done to change the bold color? I >>searched on this mailing list and found just one similar question from >>10 years ago which was unanswered: >>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01512.html >> > >Found this nice tip but haven't tried it myself. > >http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/less-colors-for-man-pages/ This talks about using termcap but less doesn't use termcap. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple