Dear CarlI can save my new colour scheme as 'Paul's colour scheme' and it still holds when I close, then re-open Aspell again. How did you go about changing from the tc-maxx blue to green text? Did you choose a different colour from those already available? The blue that tc-maxx uses is colour #7. I have set this in my colour scheme for text (instead of auto) but I have clicked onto the colour and changed #7 from blue to green. If you try and choose one of the alternative colours, say #3 or #6 for example, Aspell seems to be able to force it to revert #7. But if you change #7 to the colour you want, it seems to work -- for this colour scheme anyway. For some reason it does not work for all schemes; as you suggest the interaction between Aspell and ConEmu is a complete mystery. (I have just posted a question on the Aspell page of Github about this. I didn't confess I was still using v0.50; I imagine the latest version does the same thing.)
Best wishes Paul On 01/03/2020 21:12, Carl Distefano wrote: Reply to note from "Paul Breeze" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC) Sun, 1 Mar 2020 14:27:05 +0000 Paul, I found a ConEmu colour scheme called tc-maxx (I think that is the one, I am loath to reset it and lose what I have gained) which was blue text on a black background. I then changed the colour that was being used for the text to the green I wanted, and it seems to have stuck. I was able to reproduce this, to a point. After I loaded the tc-maxx scheme, Aspell displayed its text in tc-maxx blue. So far, so good. But then I changed the text color to green and saved the palette under a new name, IBMgreen. This new color scheme does indeed take effect whenever I open ConEmu. (And I can see the settings for IBMgreen when I open ConEmu.xml in a text editor.) BUT -- if I run Aspell, the text color ALWAYS reverts to tc-maxx blue! This happens whether I launch Aspell from frame ASPL, from a cmd.exe window, or from ConEmu itself. What's more, if I load a different ConEmu palette, with bright text, Aspell adopts that text color. But when I revert to IBMgreen, Aspell goes back to tc-maxx blue. I think you're right that Aspell tries to force white text on a black background and that the ConEmu color scheme sometimes stymies it. But if this mysterious process obeys any rules, I can't begin to describe them. But I'm glad that you were able to able to tame the beast to your satisfaction.