On Oct 19 08:29, Robert Bram wrote:
> > > > > I am finding that when I exit from vim, it turns my background
> > > > > back into black (which is how I had it before I tried changing
> > > > > it today). Is there a setting or something I have forgotten to
> > > > > change?
> > > > > ==
> > > > > Actually this is happenning not just after vim.. but even after I exit
> > > > > "less"!
> > > >
> > > > Works for me.  Did you close the console window and re-open one after
> > > > changing the colors?  Before doing this, the console colors are known
> > > > to be scrambled as you describe above.
> > >
> > > Yes I closed and re-opened the console and the problem recurs. :-/
> >
> > vim (and less, since you seem to have the same problem there) use
> > something called an "alternate screen".  This is a feature of the terminal
> > that allows the program to make arbitrary modifications to the terminal
> > screen that will be undone when the program switches back to the main
> > screen.  In particular, any color changes will be undone.  Consequently,
> > if you wish to change the color of the main screen, don't do this while
> > running vim or less.
> > HTH,
> 
> I admit to being somewhat confused by your remark - I didn't change the 
> screen while running vim or less. I edited the properties of the console so 
> that it would affect all consoles with the same name, changed the PS1 
> environment variable in my .bash_profile, closed the console, re-opened it, 
> ran vim and/or less, exited vim and/or less and then found the console colors 
> changed. Have I misunderstood your point?
> 
> Interestingly, I find that I can keep pressing ENTER and 'clear' the screen 
> back to how it was, but this is an ugly solution.

That's strange.  My first action after creating the desktop icon to start
a local Cygwin console is to change the cursor shape ("large"), the font
(Lucida Console, 12pt) and the fore- and background colors (black on grey)
in the shortcut pointing to the cygwin.bat script.  I don't see what you
see, the colors are..., well, "stable".  The colors are only scrambled up
while still running in the console window in which I made the changes.
I have no idea what could be different in your setup, sorry.


Corinna

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