Re: colors gone in cygwin

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

fREW Schmidt <frioux@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > [...]
> > > In recent versions of zsh (4.3.9 and newer, I think), the prompt
> > > themes are using the new way of specifying colors [...]
> >
> > About that new way:
> >  % man zshmisc | less -p Visual
> >  % man zshzle | less -p CHARACTER
> >
> Thank you all for your help!  I am a little curious why it worked in linux
> without that; maybe a system wide file loaded the colors.

If you're running zsh 4.3.9 in linux, too, that's probably the case.

Regards, Frank

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