On Apr 23 02:37, Alex Leigh wrote: > 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.
Unfortunately Microsoft didn't improve the console for ages. They introduced a new technique under the hood starting with W7, but it doesn't improve the visible capabilities of the console. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
