2009/6/23 Mark Harig <idirect...@aim.com>: >> The background colour is used for text beneath the cursor, so if the >> cursor is visible infront of the background, the text beneath the >> cursor should be visible too. With the default white-on-black colours, >> you get black text inside a white cursor block. >> >> Is it a particular mode or program where you're seeing this problem? > > At the bash shell prompt while editing commands is one example, but > it is also the case for me in text editors, vim or emacs, for example. > From the Options menu, I set the cursor type to block and set the > cursor color to a light color, say, yellow, and then moved the block > cursor back over the text of a command at the shell prompt. > Because the cursor-text color remained white, when it combined > with the light block color, the text inside the cursor block > "disappeared."
Could you attach your .minttyrc? Have you got any commands in your bash startup files that might be relevant here? And what's you PS1 setting? 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
