From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 11:32:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c015.snv.cp.net (h008.c015.snv.cp.net [209.228.35.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19B6837B406 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 26605 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2002 11:32:31 -0700 Received: from 209.228.35.116 (HELO mail.compgeek.com.criticalpath.net) by smtp.compgeek.com (209.228.35.123) with SMTP; 18 Jun 2002 11:32:31 -0700 X-Sent: 18 Jun 2002 18:32:31 GMT Received: from [65.16.158.66] by mail.compgeek.com with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:32:30 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: msmith@code-fu.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Jon Noack" Subject: Re: xterm-color (again!) X-Sent-From: noackjr@compgeek.com Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:32:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Web Mail 5.0.10-14 Message-Id: <20020618113231.6516.h001.c015.wm@mail.compgeek.com.criticalpath.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If 'echo $TERM' gives you 'cons25' or 'xterm-color', the '-G' option will colorize the output. I would like to point out that man page for 'ls' has all this information (see '-G' and 'CLICOLOR'). As much as a hate to say it, RTM. Jon On Tue, 18 June 2002, "Michael A. Smith" wrote > > I've searched the archives and gotten nowhere (found lots of stuff, but > none of it seems to work). I'll post this perennial favorite again! > > I'm running 4 FreeBSD boxes (two x86 workstations running XF86 4.2, two > alpha servers without X). All are tracking STABLE and their ports are > up-to-date. I've never been able to get color working on the console, in > X (with xterm) or remotely (via SSH). This applies to both simple > coloring in the shell (e.g. when running ls) and syntax highlighting in vim. > > All do this when SSHed into Linux boxes. > > I've tweaked the $TERM value on a workstation to "xterm-color" -- > nothing happens. TERM is set to xterm-color on my servers, but no color > there either. > > Any clues? I'd LOVE to get this working. > > Thanks! > -- > Michael A. Smith > Programmer at Large > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message