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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:49:27 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        David Xu <bsddiy@163.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ls with highlight color
Message-ID:  <20010905114927.A2850@myhakas.estpak.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20010904183251.A930@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:32:52PM +0100, George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:24:16PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD's ls already supports colorized output, but for me, 
> > its output is tooo dim, could we support highlight output?
> > current I can only hack it and put some ugly ANSI magic escape code in 
> > printcolor(), I looked cons25 in /etc/termcap, and can not find
> > capalility to output ANSI highlight code.
> 
> See ports/misc/gnuls.

I don't like it, because we already have colorized ls in the base
system. The blue color indicating directories is really too dark to
recognize. There should be way to trim color brightness. Anyway, I'm
using green color for this reason.
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
kalts@estpak.ee

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