On 30 August 2006 23:02, mwoehlke wrote: > Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: >> Noobie cygwin alert! >> >> Hopefully this isn't too verbose... > > Well, I stopped reading about halfway through...
Just a moment too soon, alas. >> I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all that. >> But I can't handle the default color scheme. My eyes are too old. >> >> So I changed the colors in cygwin DOS-like shell preferences to black >> foreground and white background. > If you are using the CUI (started your shell from a .bat file or ran > bash.exe directly), right-click the title bar, pick 'properties' and go > to the 'colors' tab (you might also find the 'font' tab useful; it will > let you change the text size). I believe that's exactly what he meant by "dos-like shell preferences". Unfortunately I don't know anything about how to make cygwin aware of these colours. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/