From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 10:30:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB5237B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 10:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rrcs-se-24-73-205-166.biz.rr.com (rrcs-se-24-73-205-166.biz.rr.com [24.73.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0987343FB1 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 10:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wade@ezri.org) Received: (qmail 62988 invoked from network); 11 May 2003 17:30:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ezri.org) (192.168.0.46) by rrcs-se-24-73-205-166.biz.rr.com with SMTP; 11 May 2003 17:30:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3EBE88B6.5000701@ezri.org> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 13:30:30 -0400 From: Wade Majors User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 'freebsd-questions' References: <3EBE84DC.9080706@openadventures.org> In-Reply-To: <3EBE84DC.9080706@openadventures.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Console Syntax Highlighting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:30:40 -0000 Tom Smith wrote: > Is there a way to enable Linux-like syntax highlighting at the console? You will have to be more specific than this. If you mean color support for ls(1) you can run it with the -G switch. You can setup an alias in your shells profile to automatically append the -G for you. It looks best with the -F switch which appends * to executables and / to directories. -Wade