From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 1:14:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35CF37B51F; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA96440; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39619CE9.F0D168FA@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 01:14:33 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0702 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Sean Lutner , Brian Fundakowski Feldman Subject: Re: ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color References: <200007040641.XAA37730@john.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > >> XTerm*termName: xterm-color > > > > Ok, that's a good solution, I was just using .bashrc. My point is not > > so much why, but that it be properly documented. Do you want to handle > > the update of the ls man page, or do you want me to PR a patch? > > Umm, honestly, this shouldn't be all that non-obvious. Do you expect > ls -G to work on a monochrome monitor? Of course not. :P The xterm > termcap is by default a monochrome terminal. sysinstall doesn't have > color in an xterm either w/ term=xterm. This is obvious to you and me, but to a newer user it's not going to be obvious at all. There is going to be a bunch of people who write into the mailing lists wondering why they aren't seeing the colorized ls in their xterms. -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message