I should have thought of that, but having done it, it doesn't stick -- the next prompt restores the dim light-green-on-black.
So I think it's my prompt that is 'insisting' on the dimness. The prompt strings are PS1=$'\\[\\033]0;\\w\\007\n\\033[32m\\]\\u@\\h \\[\\033[33m\\w\\033[0m\\]\n$ ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' I'm not sure where to re-set these or what they should be -- I'll go and read the man bash pages. All I want is the current directory followed by the usual '>'. BG =================== At 03:50 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 03:39 PM 3/6/2002, Barry Goldstein wrote: >>I installed cygwin and have been using it pretty much as it came "out of >>the box" (on an NT4 box). >> >>As installed (with the bash shell), it displays light green on black >>background and I'm going blind. I searched the faq, etc., and found all >>sorts of stuff about setting colors in vim or emacs, but nothing about >>setting the colors in the vanilla shell. > > >You set colors for the console window the same way as you would for a >DOS prompt (since the shell is just starting in a DOS prompt box). Change >the colors in the properties menu. If you want to set colors instead >within the shell instead, check out the bash documentation (man page, etc) >for that information. == Barry Goldstein Pequod Software 124 Otis Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newtonville, MA 02460-1846 +1-617-332-5758 (home) U.S.A. +1-509-756-7445 (fax) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
