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RE: Color Schemes
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:13:51 +0100
- Subject: 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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