Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal

Wed Jan 22 08:57:00 GMT 2003

Jim Kleckner wrote:
>> Have a look at the man page and my .Xdefaults[1]...
>> Thank you for the suggestion. 
> I'm currently using the bare cmd.exe of Win2k and didn't want to have 
> to start X11 just to get a terminal emulator. It seems heavy - is 
> this really necessary? There is probably some magic thing to say in 
> inputrc or terminfo to specify these colors but it has been 20 years 
> since I waded into termcap/terminfo. The manual mentions 
> set_foreground and set_background but it requires a lot of digging to 
> sort out. I was hoping someone could point the way or say "there be 
> dragons". 

Cygwin's rxvt port is quite cool, actually: can BOTH run with and 
without X11.
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