From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 0:10:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79AFC37C02E; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA82554; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:10:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39603C55.507A2829@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:10:13 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0629 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Sean Lutner , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Sean Lutner wrote: > > > I'm experiencing the same thing. ls --color doesn't seem to work for me > > unless like Doug, I set TERM=xterm-color. > > That's because the "color" escape sequences are defined for xterm-color > in termcap; xterm-color is defined as a superset of xterm (see the tc= > directive). Right... I am down with all that. I just wanted to confirm that the colorized ls depended on the xterm-color setting. > I have a lot of X resources defined, and here is one that > could help you guys: > > XTerm*termName: xterm-color Ok, that's a good solution, I was just using .bashrc. My point is not so much why, but that it be properly documented. Do you want to handle the update of the ls man page, or do you want me to PR a patch? Thanks, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message