Re: Colours used in mintty

2010-07-15 Thread Eric Blake
>> I am using >> >> echo $'\e]4;3;255, 0, 0\a' # color3 for devices > > Have you tried using "echo -n"? Don't get in the habit. Use printf(1) instead: printf %s %'\e]4;3;255, 0, 0\a' echo(1) is non-portable when it comes to options, and 'echo -n' will not behave the same on all shells; you

Re: Colours used in mintty

2010-07-15 Thread Fergus
Is there a way of changing the default text colours used by mintty for directories, links, executables, etc? >> From man mintty: use echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a' and similarly, in a script. I am using echo $'\e]4;3;255, 0, 0\a' # color3 for devices echo $'\e]4;6;139, 69, 19\a' # color

Re: Colours used in mintty

2010-07-15 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 7/15/2010 10:18 AM, Fergus wrote: >>> Is there a way of changing the default text colours >>> used by mintty for directories, links, executables, etc? > >> From man mintty: use >> echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a' >> and similarly, in a script. > > I am using > > echo $'\e]4;3;255, 0, 0\a' # co

Re: Colours used in mintty

2010-07-15 Thread Fergus
>> Is there a way of changing the default text colours >> used by mintty for directories, links, executables, etc? > From man mintty: use > echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a' > and similarly, in a script. I am using echo $'\e]4;3;255, 0, 0\a' # color3 for devices echo $'\e]4;6;139, 69, 19\a' # col

Re: Colours used in mintty

2010-04-09 Thread Fergus
Sorry: just seen in the manual: write echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a' and similarly, in a script. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Colours used in mintty

2010-04-09 Thread Fergus
Just moved to mintty because I can't resolve problem of rxvt hanging around after (and despite high hopes that cygwin-1.7.3-1 would address this, as in "Fix deadlock problem between atexit and dlclose processing which caused some programs to hang on exit" -- oh, well). Is there a way of chang