Re: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal

[Jim Kleckner <jek_subs at kleckner dot net>]

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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