From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 17:42:24 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 E251A37BF26; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA98588; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:42:18 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000718174218.A98458@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20000718172825.B98089@wopr.caltech.edu> <200007190044.RAA20342@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007190044.RAA20342@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:44:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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