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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:58:59 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color
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Greetings, David Karr!

> When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black.
> This is fine.  However, there are some applications that are
> displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps
> display some text in yellow, which on a white background is almost
> unreadable.

> For instance, the display from Cassandra's "cqlsh" shows the results
> of queries in black, purple (probably not quite right), and yellow.
> The worst part is, it's using yellow for the column values.

> Is there any way to control this, in general (obviously, not just for
> cqlsh output)?

Piping results through some other program usually cause origin program to not
install color codes.
For a more specific solutions, look into each program's documentation.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, September 15, 2016 23:57:56

Sorry for my terrible english...


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