John Baldwin wrote:
> >> 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.
This is obvious to you and me, but to a newer user it's not going to be
obvious at all. There is going to be a bunch of people who write into
the mailing lists wondering why they aren't seeing the colorized ls in
their xterms.
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