From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 17: 4:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525CD37B82F; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:04:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA97677; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:04:20 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Kris Kennaway , "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000718170420.A97601@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000719005555.W4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000719005555.W4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@freebsd.org on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:55:55AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:55:55AM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > If that's the case, why don't we change our termcap so that "xterm" and > "xterm-color" are the same thing, and "xterm-mono" is there for people > who _reall_ don't want color, or have a monochrome display, or whatever. > It seems really dumb not to have colour by default, but perhaps there's > a good reason. FWIW, I've just tried "TERM=xterm-color ls -G" inside a Solaris xterm, which does not support color. Nothing bad happened. The xterm just ignored the color codes instead of producing any sort of garbage. Unless anyone knows of an xterm that barfs on color codes, I would support this change. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message