On 03-Jul-00 Doug Barton wrote:
> Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Sean Lutner wrote:
>>
>> > I'm experiencing the same thing. ls --color doesn't seem to work for me
>> > unless like Doug, I set TERM=xterm-color.
>>
>> That's because the "color" escape sequences are defined for xterm-color
>> in termcap; xterm-color is defined as a superset of xterm (see the tc=
>> directive).
>
> Right... I am down with all that. I just wanted to confirm that the
> colorized ls depended on the xterm-color setting.
>
>> I have a lot of X resources defined, and here is one that
>> could help you guys:
>>
>> XTerm*termName: xterm-color
>
> Ok, that's a good solution, I was just using .bashrc. My point is not
> so much why, but that it be properly documented. Do you want to handle
> the update of the ls man page, or do you want me to PR a patch?
Umm, honestly, this shouldn't be all that non-obvious. Do you expect
ls -G to work on a monochrome monitor? Of course not. :P The xterm
termcap is by default a monochrome terminal. sysinstall doesn't have
color in an xterm either w/ term=xterm.
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
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