xmessage color
Thomas Dickey
dickey@his.com
Fri Dec 14 13:45:00 GMT 2007
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Tom Bruning wrote:
> I am a newbie using cygwin/x. I have tried to find an answer in all
> documentation I can find but to no avail
>
> I am trying to send a message through xmessage that includes color
> escape sequences. I can display color in a normal xterm window but in
> xmessage I only display the escape sequences. I have tried to find
> out how to use xmessage-color but have been unable to use it.
xmessage doesn't interpret escape sequences.
You may be able to get what you want with a shell script, e.g.,
xterm -hold -e echo "$@"
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Thomas E. Dickey
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