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RE: Color Schemes


On 30 August 2006 23:02, mwoehlke wrote:

> Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote:
>> Noobie cygwin alert!
>> 
>> Hopefully this isn't too verbose...
> 
> Well, I stopped reading about halfway through...

  Just a moment too soon, alas.

>> I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all that.
>> But I can't handle the default color scheme.  My eyes are too old.
>> 
>> So I changed the colors in cygwin DOS-like shell preferences to black
>> foreground and white background.

> If you are using the CUI (started your shell from a .bat file or ran
> bash.exe directly), right-click the title bar, pick 'properties' and go
> to the 'colors' tab (you might also find the 'font' tab useful; it will
> let you change the text size).

  I believe that's exactly what he meant by "dos-like shell preferences".
Unfortunately I don't know anything about how to make cygwin aware of these
colours.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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