changing terminal colours

[Don Sharp]

Absolutely nothing in my cygwin bash box.

Cheers

Don Sharp

egor duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thursday, 17 May, 2001 Alun Moon alun.moon@unn.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> AM> The default shell starts up with light text on a dark background.
> 
> AM> If I change the colours from the DOS-window properties menu, then
> AM> although the colours change, things like the syntax highlighting in
> AM> vim don't respond to the changes...
> 
> things like syntax highlighting in vim are configured from within
> things like vim itself. it's application task to configure terminal
> colors
> 
> AM> What's the mechanism for changing the colours within cygwin?
> 
> similar to other unices -- to change color, send appropriate escape
> sequence to terminal. cygwin terminal is supposed to be compatible
> with vt100.
> 
> for example, try this in your cygwin window:
> 
> bash$ echo -e "\033[36;44m"
> 
> and see what happens.
> 
> Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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