Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:25:01 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: 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, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <200007191425.PAA07457@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:11:41 PDT." <20000718171141.A97774@wopr.caltech.edu>
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> 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 <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> 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
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