On 14 October 2011 14:18, Ronald Fischer wrote: > When I (to give an example) execute a "man" command within a mintty > window, and do the same within a "normal" Windows console window, I see > that those words represented as underlined words in the mintty > window, are represented by a different colour in the Windows console > windows. > > I guess this different has nothing to do with the "man" command, but by > the way the terminal definition says how render "emphasized" words. > Since the Windows console (likely) can't underline, colouring is used. > It's kind of a "terminal property". Do I understand this correctly?
Yep. > I would like to understand, where this mapping to a certain colour is > done. Reason is that the colour used for my Windows console window, is a > bit hard to read and I would like to change it. It's hardcoded in the Cygwin DLL (in winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc), so you'd have to build that yourself to change it. Getting man/groff to use something other than the underline attribute might be the better approach, but I don't know how to do that. Andy -- 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
