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Re: rxvt red is displayed as white
For those of you old enough to remember Emily Litella, "Nevermind." My
.Xdefaults were to blame...
> I'm at wit's end here. I'm starting cygwin as follows:
>
> @echo off
> set EDITOR=vi
> set VISUAL=vi
> set CYGWIN=codepage:oem tty binmode title
> C:\opt\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 120x35 -title "Korn Shell" -bg 7 -fg
> 18 -sr -sl 1500 -e /usr/bin/ksh -l
>
> I've tried a bazillion different TERM settings and with each one I have
> the same problem. While editing files in vi, my string literals which are
> set to appear as red, appear as white. This problem appears only on my
> laptop. On windows servers that I log into via RemoteDesktop, I don't have
> this problem. My strings appear as red. I've copied configs from those
> servers to my laptop and still my strings appear as white. My laptop is
> capable of displaying red. It just doesn't do it in rxvt. Any thoughts?
>
> Jeff
>
>
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