From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 09:07:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A9016A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m23.nyc.untd.com (m23.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AB2C43FCB for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gs_stoller@juno.com) Received: from cookie.untd.com by cookie.untd.com for <"/s5f1SIGSI3+WdnoYQ8yRDqN3KHjRr/mAhh6CMIj983/+iX0kGfHLw==">; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:07:08 PDT Received: (from gs_stoller@juno.com) by m23.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id JBHFWA5K; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:07:08 PDT To: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:33:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20031002.120620.-165803.0.GS_Stoller@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 5,12 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Gerald S Stoller Subject: color in messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:07:52 -0000 It is possible to put color in the FreeBSD messages, I have seen the font color change when I used 'ls -G'. I would also like to change the color of the background. Unfortunately i have seen no documentation on how to do this. May i suggest that something brief be written about this so people can start using color (ASAP) and send me a copy, then do a more extensive version (if needed for a formal release. I tried to find special characters in the output of 'ls -G' by piping it through a tee but it seems that ls checks on the destination of its STDOUT and if it not directly to the screen it removes the color modifying code from it. Were i to have coded ls , I would leave the color modifying code always in the output and maybe provide another utiliity that removes it through which one could pipe the output if one wanted the color modifying code removed. Probably this question is better directed at the XFree86 people but I haven't gotten a good reply from them.