Re: xmessage color

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Tom Bruning wrote:

> I am a newbie using cygwin/x.  I have tried to find an answer in all
> documentation I can find but to no avail
>
> I am trying to send a message through xmessage that includes color
> escape sequences.  I can display color in a normal xterm window but in
> xmessage I only display the escape sequences.  I have tried to find
> out how to use xmessage-color but have been unable to use it.

xmessage doesn't interpret escape sequences.

You may be able to get what you want with a shell script, e.g.,

xterm -hold -e echo "$@"

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