BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Changing prompts from green to another colour?
De:       Digital Man
Data:     Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:32:44 -0800
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  Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
  By: Waveyuk to Digital Man on Wed Feb 11 2026 05:45 pm

 >   Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
 >   By: Digital Man to Waveyuk on Mon Feb 09 2026 13:34:42
 >
 > Hi Rob
 >
 > So here's a list of the menus and which key presses bring up the prompts
 > that are currently in green that I'd like to change to the magenta colours.
 >
 > MAIN MENU
 > ---------
 >  (N) New message scan
 >  (L) List new messages
 >  (P) View/Vote in polls
 >  (A) Post auto messages
 >  (F) Find text in messages
 >  (S) Scan for messages to you
 >  (J) Jump to new message area
 >  (*) List sub-boards
 > (/*) List groups
 >  (X) External programs
 >  (U) User lists
 > (/L) Node activity
 >
 > ELECTRONIC MAIL
 > ---------------
 >  (R) Read mail sent to you
 >  (U) Unread mail
 >  (K) Read/Kill mail you have sent
 >
 > FILES
 > -----
 >  (N) New file scan
 >  (E) Extended file info
 >  (F) Download file
 >  (J) Jump to file area
 >  (*) List sub-directories
 > (/*) List libraries
 >  (F) Find text in description
 >  (S) Search for file
 >
 > In almost all of the above, the green I am referring to is the prompt that
 > appears after you press the key, or in the case of listings, the green text
 > showing message areas/messages/file areas etc.
 >
 > If you can point me in the right direction to be able to change the colours
 > on these screens, it would be a great help.

Most or all of those are "mnemonics" strings (they appear in the text.dat with tildes, ~, before each command key) and the color for mnemonics is controlled via the ctrl/attr.ini settings we already discussed.

I changed that one line in that one file and all those prompts are now magenta on my BBS:
mnelow            = M                                   Mnemonic Prompts Low
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                                            digital man (rob)

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