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Re: Bold color in "cygwin bash shell"
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:04:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: Bold color in "cygwin bash shell"
- References: <BAY158-W5260C1EE428DAA39575A9AB1770@phx.gbl>
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Saurabh T wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For various reasons, I cannot switch to rxvt or similar, and am stuck
> using the cygwin bash shell (which runs on top of the dos cmd window).
>
> Here, the background color defaults to black and foreground to light.
> I reversed this using the dos window -> Properties -> Colors.
>
> However the bold color does not change. This causes for example man pages
> to be displayed badly (light text on light background).
>
> Is there anything that can be done to change the bold color? I searched
> on this mailing list and found just one similar question from 10 years
> ago which was unanswered:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01512.html
>
Found this nice tip but haven't tried it myself.
http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/less-colors-for-man-pages/
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