I was able to come up with something, though not sure it's the best or what I had before. Sorry if this is obvious to most people, but to get rid of colorized output, I added to my .bashrc:
export LS_COLORS='' If $PS1 has terminal color escape codes, then replace that also with something else, e.g.: export PS1="\h $ " Thanks, Chris On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Chris Wolf <cwolf.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just installed a recent release of Cygwin and notice that it now > features syntax highlighting. Is there a way to totally disable this? > All I want is be able to set the foreground/background colors via the > Windoze way of right clicking on the frame and I don't want the out of > "ls" colorized nor for the colors to change to some weird settings > upon invoking "vi". I want them the same under all conditions. > > I checked the documentation, FAQ and message archives of this list, > but most of the questions were about how to *enable* colors or > customize them. > > I actually did figure a round-about way of doing this via setting some > env vars and setting (or unsetting aliases). Unfortunately the laptop > I did this on died, so I'm starting from scratch. > > (P.S. this could be bash issue and not exactly Cygwin, although older > releases of Cygwin did not have this "problem". ) > > Thanks, > > Chris -- 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
