From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 7:25:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6190937BDF0; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (hak.nat.Awfulhak.org [172.31.0.12]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA36741; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:25:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07457; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:25:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200007191425.PAA07457@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Josef Karthauser , Ben Smithurst , Kris Kennaway , "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Color ls In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Hunt 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: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:25:01 +0100 From: Brian Somers 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? Despite being against ls -G, I'd certainly advocate this change... I'm surprised this hasn't already been done. The never-to-be-committed evil is ``alias ls="ls -G"'' in /etc/profile ! > -- > Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message