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prompt colors in xterm
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: prompt colors in xterm
- From: Robert Jacobson <teridon at erols dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:52:46 -0400
Hi,
I've asked this question once, but never got it resolved.
Colored text in xterm prompts displays as black, no matter what the
foreground/background colors are. That's invisible if your
background is black. :(
for example, set PS1 to '\e[0:36m\u\e[m # '
That should make the prompt your username in cyan, and a foreground
colored "#". But in cygwin xfree, the username is black.
This happens on both my Win2k and Win98 computers.
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Robert Jacobson teridon@erols.com
BS, Aeronautical Engineering Univ. of Md., College Park
Flight Ops. Team - SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)