On 2007-04-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:26:47PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2007-04-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)? >> > >> > Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre >> > colors scattered all over my screen? >> >> Yea, nothing is quite as readible as yellow or bright green on >> a white background. I hate color output. I'm completely >> baffled that anybody thinks it should be the default. > ><sarcasm>All you have to do is double your font size and they become > quite legible.</sarcasm> > >> > I CAN'T EVEN DISABLE IT BY SETTING TERM TO vt100. >> > >> > And if ALL THESE CAPS distress you and you think I am shouting, well >> > goodness gracious, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT COLORIZATION RUN AMUCK. >> >> Worse than emerge is that ls and other more commonly used >> utilities all default to utterly-illegible mode on Gentoo. > > At least ls's color comes from that damned alias. You can at least > use "/bin/ls" or prefix each command with "TERM=vt100" to get rid of > them temporarily, or "unalias -a" to get rid of them permanently per > login, or edit /etc/profile to get rid of them permanently forever.
Except "forever" only lasts until the next emerge replaces /etc/profile. > At least the color options actually work. You've got a point there. :) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Here I am at the flea at market but nobody is buying visi.com my urine sample bottles... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list