From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 11:22: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B722F37BFEE for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Received: by manatee.mammalia.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DCF6811CD6E; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:21:58 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: Josef Karthauser Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000719112158.A13347@manatee.mammalia.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> <20000719150836.K630@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000719150836.K630@pavilion.net>; from joe@pavilion.net on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:08:36PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:08:36PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > 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. > Absolutely. That's why I said (hopefully in good humor) the *default* colors are horrid. However, you can change the defaults all you want, but you still will not get bright color like you get with gnuls. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message