Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:40:39 +0100 (BST) From: Martin Hopkins <martin.hopkins@insignia.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <14709.48615.161851.90182@luggage.isltd.insignia.com> In-Reply-To: <200007191425.PAA07457@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <mph@astro.caltech.edu> <20000718171141.A97774@wopr.caltech.edu> <200007191425.PAA07457@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> writes:
>> 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?
Brian> Despite being against ls -G, I'd certainly advocate this change...
Brian> I'm surprised this hasn't already been done. The never-to-be-committed
Brian> evil is ``alias ls="ls -G"'' in /etc/profile !
or /usr/share/skel/dot.profile
Martin
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