Cygwin errors after altering Windows command prompt shortcut (???)

[Earnie Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Pat Tressel <ptressel@myuw.net> wrote:
> Andrey --
>
>>> Background:  Ok, this is really weird...
>>
>> It's even weirder, than you'd think.
>> Hint: reg:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console
>
> Oooooh, that.  I could *not* remember "console".  I was thinking
> "terminal" or "you know, whatever it is that Windows runs its command
> prompt in" or "the thing that has the text color properties and the
> quick edit mode".
>
> (Off topic:  Huh.  So maybe git or msysgit was monkeying around with
> the color table...maybe using a non-standard color?)
>

The MSYS part of msysgit doesn't muck with registry keys.  Maybe
something with tksh that it uses does.

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