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Subject: Re: Bold color in "cygwin bash shell"
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:00:39 -0700
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On 10/17/2012 12:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm... I tried it and I got grey backgrounds on some of the things in 
the man page. Ugly looking but it does seem to have some effect...
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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