Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:32:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@compgeek.com> To: msmith@code-fu.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm-color (again!) Message-ID: <20020618113231.6516.h001.c015.wm@mail.compgeek.com.criticalpath.net>
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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 <msmith@code-fu.com> > 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
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