Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:12:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <200007190012.e6J0CRE24318@lerami.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <20000719005555.W4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> "from Ben Smithurst at Jul 19, 2000 00:55:55 am"
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FYI, I had a similar issue with dtterm coming into a FreeBSD box from SCO UnixWare 7. DTTERM does color, but the DTTERM /etc/termcap didn't work for vim. Adding the same lines to the dtterm termcap as for xterm-color fixed it as well. Larry -- Start of PGP signed section. > Matthew Hunt wrote: > > > Does anyone know why XFree86's xterm, as shipped, doesn't set > > TERM to xterm-color? Is it for fear of an xterm-color entry > > not existing (either on the local machine, or machines you > > telnet/ssh to from the xterm)? > > ok, next question. > > 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. > > /me runs away for fear of annoying people by even daring to suggest this. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / -- End of PGP section, PGP failed! -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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