On 04-Jul-00 Doug Barton wrote:
> 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.
Well, then you are going to have to document this for every single color
program people might want to run in an xterm. :) Seriously, educating the
users on termcap will probably be a more productive way of going about this.
One way of doing this might be to add a FAQ entry along the lines of
"Programs such as ls(1) and sysinstall(8) don't display color in my xterm
or other terminal?"
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