Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:14:46 +0200 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: ls(1) referring to xterm-color Message-ID: <20070903191446.GA2609@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>
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Hi current,
ls(1) contains the following passage under ENVIRONMENT about color
output:
CLICOLOR Use ANSI color sequences to distinguish file types. See
LSCOLORS below. In addition to the file types mentioned
in the -F option some extra attributes (setuid bit set,
etc.) are also displayed. The colorization is dependent
on a terminal type with the proper termcap(5) capabili-
ties. The default ``cons25'' console has the proper
capabilities, but to display the colors in an xterm(1),
for example, the TERM variable must be set to
``xterm-color''. Other terminal types may require simi-
lar adjustments. Colorization is silently disabled if
the output is not directed to a terminal unless the
CLICOLOR_FORCE variable is defined.
But xterm grew color support some time ago, so the reference to
'xterm-color' should probably be removed or changed to 'xterm'.
Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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