From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 7:35:47 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 B1C2237BEF3; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:35:37 -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 PAA36860; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:35:33 +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 PAA07594; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:35:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200007191435.PAA07594@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brian Somers Cc: Matthew Hunt , 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 Brian Somers of "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:25:01 BST." <200007191425.PAA07457@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:35:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > > What we want to do is have TERM=xterm be the same as xterm-color > > is now. [.....] I wrote: > 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 ! Let me retract that (it's been a long day!). As Mike Smith points out, if FreeBSD's xterm can do color, it should be setting TERM to color-xterm. -- 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