changing terminal colours

[David Larsson (ERA)]

Since this might be of interest to others on the list we'll keep it there.

I'm running W2k on the cygwin machine so my config wont help you. On win9x you can't, as far as I know, change colors on the fly, you have to change the console colors from within the autoexec.bat file if you want them to stick. This assumes you have ansi.sys started as a device in config.sys. Of course you can put the prompt string into the cygwin.bat file but you still have to load ansi.sys as a device in config.sys at boot time, (Now, I have to say that I have not tested this since I'm not running cygwin on w9x but it should work).

If you have a copy of old plain dos you will find an helpfile for ansi.sys which describes how to change the colors, unfortunaely I only have a localized version and not time enough to translate the text.

Here's  how to change to black bg and green fg with bold text.

    prompt $e[1;32;40m$p$g

I'm using reversed video on my w98 machine so my prompt string is:
Prompt=$p$g$e[7m

Hope this will help anyone,

///David


-----Original Message-----
From: Duke Normandin [ mailto:01031149@3web.net ]
Sent: den 18 maj 2001 03:52
To: David Larsson (ERA)
Subject: Re: changing terminal colours



On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:45:23PM +0200, David Larsson (ERA) wrote:

> I had problems changing terminal colors if I changed them from the
> already opened cygwin terminal window. As soon as I started typing the
> old colors appeared on the new text. I solved the problem by changing
> the colors on the shortcut that starts cygwin so now it works fine for
> me, in vim too.
> 
> Hope this will help.
> 
> ///David

Would you mind sending me an example of how you did this in the
"shortcut" you mentioned above. Do you mean the 'cygwin.bat' file? I'm
having trouble setting up my win95 console to display with a blue
background with white text. I'm almost there, but when I exit a program
-like joe or vim -- I have to keep on doing 'clearn' to get the screen
color back. I'm thinking that your 'trick' may be what I need. TIA...
-- 
-duke
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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