On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:04:02PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Saurabh T wrote: >>For various reasons, I cannot switch to rxvt or similar, and am stuck >>using the cygwin bash shell (which runs on top of the dos cmd window). >> >>Here, the background color defaults to black and foreground to light. >>I reversed this using the dos window -> Properties -> Colors. >> >>However the bold color does not change. This causes for example man >>pages to be displayed badly (light text on light background). >> >>Is there anything that can be done to change the bold color? I >>searched on this mailing list and found just one similar question from >>10 years ago which was unanswered: >>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01512.html >> > >Found this nice tip but haven't tried it myself. > >http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/less-colors-for-man-pages/
This talks about using termcap but less doesn't use termcap. cgf -- 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
