Ronald Fischer sent the following at Friday, October 14, 2011 9:18 AM >When I (to give an example) execute a "man" command within a mintty >window, and do the same within a "normal" Windows console window, I see >that those words represented as underlined words in the mintty window, >are represented by a different colour in the Windows console windows. > >I guess this different has nothing to do with the "man" command, but >by the way the terminal definition says how render "emphasized" words. >Since the Windows console (likely) can't underline, colouring is used. >It's kind of a "terminal property". Do I understand this correctly? > >I would like to understand, where this mapping to a certain colour is >done. Reason is that the colour used for my Windows console window, is >a bit hard to read and I would like to change it.
I don't know, but ... Looking at the output of man, it seems that man formats with backspace ("<^H>"), e.g., bold X is X<^H>X and underlined Y is _<^H>Y. Looking at /etc/defaults/etc/man.conf suggests to me that TROFF or NROFF might be involved. Reading the manual page for man.conf is even more suggestive. $ man -S 5 man.conf Assuming that the above is useful, where one goes from there is left as an exercise for someone else. Good Luck, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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