Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: Tools under Windows

[Earnie B. <ea...@pr...>]

Quoting Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...>:

> Howard Chu wrote, quoting me:
> [This originated on the aut...@gn... mailing list]
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>
>> The other tweak that always goes in here is to change the default
>> rxvt colors, even though the comments say not to edit them there.
>> (sigh..)
>
> The rxvt colours are always going to be a subjective choice, which
> will vary from one user to the next.  The current defaults were set
> according to Earnie Boyd's preference, and clearly will not suit
> everyone.  The advice to not change them is more related to the
> potential for clobbering the customisation during an upgrade,
> rather than to any disasterous side effect which might ensue.  Of
> course, a user customisation hook, calling a user supplied script,
> would also side step this issue.
>

The rxvt colors already have user hooks in the form of environment 
variables. See the msys.bat file for the names of the variables.  If 
the variables are set
prior to using msys.bat, the colors represented in the value of the variables
will be used.


Kind Regards,
Earnie Boyd

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