From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 17:12:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1DF37B64B; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:12:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000715) id e6J0CRE24318; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:12:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <200007190012.e6J0CRE24318@lerami.lerctr.org> Subject: Re: Color ls In-Reply-To: <20000719005555.W4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> "from Ben Smithurst at Jul 19, 2000 00:55:55 am" To: Ben Smithurst Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:12:27 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Matthew Hunt , Kris Kennaway , "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL79 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI, I had a similar issue with dtterm coming into a FreeBSD box from SCO UnixWare 7. DTTERM does color, but the DTTERM /etc/termcap didn't work for vim. Adding the same lines to the dtterm termcap as for xterm-color fixed it as well. Larry -- Start of PGP signed section. > Matthew Hunt wrote: > > > Does anyone know why XFree86's xterm, as shipped, doesn't set > > TERM to xterm-color? Is it for fear of an xterm-color entry > > not existing (either on the local machine, or machines you > > telnet/ssh to from the xterm)? > > ok, next question. > > If that's the case, why don't we change our termcap so that "xterm" and > "xterm-color" are the same thing, and "xterm-mono" is there for people > who _reall_ don't want color, or have a monochrome display, or whatever. > It seems really dumb not to have colour by default, but perhaps there's > a good reason. > > /me runs away for fear of annoying people by even daring to suggest this. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / -- End of PGP section, PGP failed! -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message