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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57603819.20160915235859@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA5t8VoO0AEJ1in1pf+iZc6yKyfDSdKZjt-gNYkMMKtjf9-6xA@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, David Karr!

> When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black.
> This is fine.  However, there are some applications that are
> displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps
> display some text in yellow, which on a white background is almost
> unreadable.

> For instance, the display from Cassandra's "cqlsh" shows the results
> of queries in black, purple (probably not quite right), and yellow.
> The worst part is, it's using yellow for the column values.

> Is there any way to control this, in general (obviously, not just for
> cqlsh output)?

Piping results through some other program usually cause origin program to not
install color codes.
For a more specific solutions, look into each program's documentation.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, September 15, 2016 23:57:56

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-15 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-15 21:04 David Karr
2016-09-15 21:07 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-09-16 13:21 ` Brian Inglis
2016-09-16 13:48 ` James Darnley
2016-09-16 15:48   ` David Karr
2016-09-16 20:52   ` Thomas Wolff

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