George wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:59:09PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
George wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
[...] and I am not aware of any way to examine the terminal's
"palette", nor should you need to. If a user wants to fiddle with
thes
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:59:09PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>> George wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> [...] and I am not aware of any way to examine the terminal's
>>> "palette", nor should you need to. If a user wants to fiddle with
>>>
Is that an exhaustive list of colors?
30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
What about 38 and 39?
I could just try it, but knowing my luck, it would just lock up the whole
terminal forever.
FWIW, color space is 3-dimensional and with VDT's, the dimensions are r
Aha!
Clicking on the icons and spinning the number wheels is NOT the same
thing at all! :-(
Right.
The real issue I'm having as the naive user is the colors dialog GUI
human interface.
...and for the record, I hate that UI. :-) It isn't very well designed IMO.
[snip]
As I understand it, t
George wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean
is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job
to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwi
[Using my REAL email to follow-up]
On Wed, August 30, 2006 8:28 pm, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> René Berber wrote:
>> Richard Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> This may be a generalized Un*x question, but I've been going in
>>> circles for
>>> awhile now, and cygwin is the current beast being beaten on.
>>>
>>
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean
>> is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job
>> to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwin's
>>
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Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote:
> -Original Message-
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> Subject: [SPAM] RE: Color Schemes
> [snip]
Eek! Please, PLEASE http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#P
(Still can't decide if I should TITTTL this...)
Dave Korn wrote:
AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean is
utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job to display
the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwin's console-handling code
René Berber wrote:
Richard Lynch wrote:
This may be a generalized Un*x question, but I've been going in circles for
awhile now, and cygwin is the current beast being beaten on.
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 to
Richard Lynch wrote:
> This may be a generalized Un*x question, but I've been going in circles for
> awhile now, and cygwin is the current beast being beaten on.
>
> 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.
>
On 31 August 2006 00:40, mwoehlke wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I don't know anything about how to make cygwin aware of these
>> colours.
>
> Aware? Cygwin is never aware of them; that's the point. All the terminal
> knows is '1;32', '0;37', etc. It is the job of the terminal emu
Dave Korn wrote:
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.
Bu
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Korn
Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 5:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPAM] RE: Color Schemes
[snip]
Eek! Please, PLEASE http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR,
especially if it's dro
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote:
I'm starting cygwin from the Start menu that cygwin installed, which windows
'properties' show as mapped to:
C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
I used the 'Properties' in that window to get the scheme I wanted, and
applied to the thingie that launched this shell.
I've als
e video to 'less'
This is not, however, a general solution for 'less', but at least I can now
read the man pages to attempt to figure out how to fix the man pages output.
:-)
[Yes, I know I can read them elsewhere too]
Thanks for your help!
--
http://nationalsystems.com
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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
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote:
Noobie cygwin alert!
Hopefully this isn't too verbose...
Well, I stopped reading about halfway through...
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 c
.
I've looked in /etc/termcap and that's just way too geek-code for me to
handle...
Is there some kind of GTK or ncurses GUI interface to cygwin/Un*x color
schemes for various tools that could be used to toy with color schemes
instead of editing multiple /etc/ and ~/.*rc files?
[I'm
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