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Assunto:  Changing prompts from green to another colour?
De:       Digital Man
Data:     Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:40:09 -0800
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  Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
  By: Digital Man to Waveyuk on Wed Feb 11 2026 02:32 pm

 >   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
The other strings are in the ctrl/text.dat file e.g.
"\1-\1gSub-boards of \1h%-60.60s \1n\1gMsgs"\             125 SubLstHdr
        "\r\n\r\n\1h"

... which you can override by adding a line to your ctrl/text.ini file (replacing \1g with \1m):
SubLstHdr: "\1-\1mSub-boards of \1h%-60.60s \1n\1mMsgs\r\n\r\n\1h"
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