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Re: colors gone in cygwin

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From: "Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: colors gone in cygwin
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, fREW Schmidt wrote:

> Hi all,
> I had mailed this list about this before a while back and we never 
> resolved it; mostly because work got crazy for me. ÂI am running cygwin 
> with zsh (zsh 4.3.9 (i686-pc-cygwin)) and for some reason all of the 
> colors on my prompt are gone.
> 
> You can see my .zshrc
> here:Âhttp://github.com/frioux/dotfiles/blob/0cec8a1817001148525170ef5318b54bdd63aa69/zshrc
> 
> There is a fairly long prompt near the bottom, but that wouldn't explain 
> where the colors went. ÂIt all works fine in linux.
> 
> Thoughts?

Not sure if this is the "proper" way to initialize colors, but the 
following works for me on Cygwin Zsh 4.3.9:

autoload colors
colors
echo $fg_bold[cyan]something in color$reset_color

Best,
Ben

References:
- colors gone in cygwin
  - From: fREW Schmidt

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