Hi everyone, I've been using mintty with Cygwin but I'm finding myself running Windows console programs that don't work with mintty, and it's sometimes a hassle to juggle two terminal programs. I would like to try to switch back to the cmd.exe based Cygwin shell, and I can live without things like termios support, but I need 256 color support for vim color schemes. So my question is, is it possible to get 256 colors with Cygwin running on top of cmd.exe? I found something in this mailing from 2005 where someone said that cmd.exe only supports 16 colors, but I'm hoping that perhaps that has improved in the 5 years time since, however unlikely it may be.
If this is not possible, then does anyone have any advice on ways to have compatibility with both Unix terminal features including 256 color and Windows console programs within a single terminal app? The only solution of this sort I've found is conin.exe from the developers of mintty. It does provide half the solution in that it allows input to be piped from mintty to Windows console programs, but unfortunately it's not possible to see the output from those programs. Thank you very much for any help. Alex -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
