From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 7: 8:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303B037B60A for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id B26D09B05; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:08:36 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:08:36 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Matthew Hunt , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000719150836.K630@pavilion.net> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , R Joseph Wright , Matthew Hunt , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000719005555.W4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000718170420.A97601@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000718175525.A10074@manatee.mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000718175525.A10074@manatee.mammalia.org>; from rjoseph@mammalia.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:55:25PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:55:25PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > The thing that really bugs me about ls is the lack of bright colors like you > get with gnuls. The blue is so dark it blends in with the black background > of the console. I spent several hours looking through the code to see if I > could change that, but alas I did not understand it :-(. > And, sorry to rant, but the default colors are horrid, too! Do 'ls -G /dev' > to see what I mean. AAaaarh! > Colours are always a personal preference. No answer is right for everyone. Read the manual page for ls and define your own colours in your environment. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message