On Nov 22 18:20, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I noticed that the reverse color bug > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=514 > shows up again in recent cygwin1.dll updates. My previous patch > is still in the source but additional code apparently has the same > effect of rendering output unreadable; the effect is the following: > * foreground is set bright > * screen mode is set to reverse > * cygwin wrongly assumes that the reverse foreground colour (which > actually used to be the non-bright background color) should be > set to bright, which is obviously a wrong idea and often results > in a contrast that renders the output almost unreadable > > The attached shell script test514 demonstrates the bug. > The attached patch is an attempt to fix the bug again. > [...] > * fhandler_console.cc (set_color): Avoid (again) inappropriate intensity > interchanging that used to render reverse output unreadable > when (non-reversed) text is bright. > See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=514
Yup, that seems to do the trick. Thanks, applied. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat