From: "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d01c06a9b$cdecd7a0$3800a8c0@tscintranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10012201606070.6594-100000@irz1.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Thanks, that's the info I was looking for.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjoern Kahl AG Resy" <kahl@informatik.uni-kl.de>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
> Hallo !
>
> > I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background
(The
> > ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with
not
> > enough contrast. I want to use a white background with black letters.
>
> Well, I would prefer white on black, but thats OT
>
> > I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.
>
> In the man for bash you may find how to set things like
> hostname or username in PS. For the colors, IIRC you should
> read a description of the terminal. one example is the linux-
> manpage console_codes (section 4 I think).
> I dont have it here (so I may wrong) , but try looking for the
> mode-commands: "<CSI> some_magic_numbers <m>"
>
> Just tried it:
> echo -e "\033[34m test" gives a blue "test" , 33 gives yellow.
>
>
> Bjoern
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Reid Thompson" <jreidthompson@yahoo.com>
>
> > > A man on bash will give information re the PS prompts
> > > -- when you say you wish to change the color of your
> > > env,, how do you mean?
>
> > > --- "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> > > > How about a clue as to what I need to read to
> > > > decipher what the different items in PS1 do?
>
> > > > I would like to change the color of my cygwin
> > > > environment, and I'm presuming that this is where I
> > > > would do it...
>
>
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2000-12-20 6:52 ` J. David Boyd
2000-12-20 7:15 ` Bjoern Kahl AG Resy
2000-12-20 7:43 ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2000-12-20 7:55 Earnie Boyd
2000-12-20 8:26 ` J. David Boyd
2000-12-20 8:43 ` Henry Smith
2000-12-20 11:20 ` Tom Weichmann
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2000-12-20 5:17 J. David Boyd
2000-12-20 6:11 ` Henry Smith
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