From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 33782 invoked by alias); 21 May 2017 21:02:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 33210 invoked by uid 89); 21 May 2017 21:01:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=colors, Bash, xterm, lately X-HELO: mail-qt0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-qt0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-qt0-f174.google.com) (209.85.216.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 21 May 2017 21:01:58 +0000 Received: by mail-qt0-f174.google.com with SMTP id c13so89110486qtc.1 for ; Sun, 21 May 2017 14:02:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=A+7a4wJmlCm42XtP8cG01BGiDVz4R29glTpjas7Qoxs=; b=f5ailmxU9yf8VlS1oKKXCMB0nFq9Eub+4g4lHLwoTYNe+pbyyqRKdZg3z24BZYB8Kx Hb6uPDXDItJGHWVMeaxWXxyQJExsNMHG/+gUILKInVmQp8JVUQBg5vvzqoMVcohUtCsA fTaRNzoJ4gptaIvQZ/qA6E1tRoduBJnYYrCV2r+BBp83qiyBnS0hACrs1MZuijDrHaOO bngOCXATT49g6mGOiUWCr6uSqv9dHwuS8z6d0TypiTseOfonE1HXqQUa4u0E9GPfaQuo DinYlHFcxZ2QUVYWtcaxV+g1sklthoutmZ0D/aJ304WD+hym4KPoMbkUvyAXlk/PbFtV CO5A== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcD9oaSJV8VRDGCEOsyI70UWceFcS51sJs/5lH6DJp0XZP2skOZv jRnAkMUxnZFeNQbcfwZwxfbgNwofvTy5 X-Received: by 10.200.53.200 with SMTP id l8mr20349590qtb.7.1495400519767; Sun, 21 May 2017 14:01:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.55.80.86 with HTTP; Sun, 21 May 2017 14:01:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Sky Diver Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 05:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ANSI colors not showing by default To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-05/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi, your symptom description is quite sparse... > > Am 21.05.2017 um 22:45 schrieb Sky Diver: >> >> Lately I noticed that colors are not showing by default in some >> situations. >> The most apparent case is when running composer. > > What "composer"? PHP composer https://getcomposer.org >> The latest composer version on "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" console, >> and even when running it via a mintty shell looks just fine. But from >> cygwin the output is monochrome. > > "From cygwin" could mean (guessing) from a cygwin console window, where your > TERM setting would be "cygwin". > That could cause an application to assume no colour support. So it would > help if you tell us what your settings are. (*) I thought that cygcheck.out would answer these type of questions. The default TERM value is 'xterm', even when I rename my home-dir and launch a shell that creates a fresh one. >> I would love to understand what's going on. >> I tried the following: >> - Change the TERM var to several values > > Which values? TERM=xterm TERM=xterm-256color TERM=Cygwin TERM=cygwin This one also didn't help: export CYGWIN=codepage:ansi -- 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