Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:42:18 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000718174218.A98458@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <200007190044.RAA20342@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:44:29PM -0700 References: <20000718172825.B98089@wopr.caltech.edu> <200007190044.RAA20342@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:44:29PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > I can think of dozens. Try anything that depends on colour to identify > eg. menu selections. I'm soliciting a specific example, because in my experience they usually simultaneously indicate the selection by inverse video or some sort of visible cursor. > So fix your Sun systems so that they recognise xterm-color. I don't administer the Suns. > You are attempting to rationalise "wrong" behaviour, and that's just > plain "wrong". OK, you're actually starting to be useful instead of just telling me to shut up. There's an increasing number of questions about this since ls -G, and I'm trying to figure out how to make life easier for new users and the people who have to deal with them. So, is the answer to use ~/.ssh/environment to set TERMCAP to the xterm-color entry? Should we put something in the Handbook describing this process? -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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