From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 17:23: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C29A37BB58 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20235; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007190031.RAA20235@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Matthew Hunt Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:11:41 PDT." <20000718171141.A97774@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:31:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > joe@cuddy[503]: export TERM=xterm-color > > joe@cuddy[504]: vi > > xterm-color: Unknown terminal type > > Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability > > :q > > joe@cuddy[505]: uname -a > > SunOS cuddy 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 > > That's not the issue. > > What we want to do is have TERM=xterm be the same as xterm-color > is now. > > If you log in to a FreeBSD box from your Sun, and *then* set > TERM=xterm-color and run things on the FreeBSD box, do the color > escape sequences screw anything up? Yes. Any program that expects colour to work. The correct fix here is to tell your xterms to identify themselves as xterm-color. This will then proceed to break anyone that wants to use an xtern to talk to a system that doesn't know what xterm-color is. The more correct fix here is to stop worrying about fucking colourised ls output and focus on the seventeen dozen more important things that need your angst. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message