On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:50:16PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:24:22PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > > > > i usually use xterm-color in FreeBSD even though you really shouldn't > > > ever use 'xterm-color' since color 'ls' only works (AFAIK) when $TERM is > > > set to this. on linux, i use xterm-xfree86, or sometimes just xterm.
It's trivial to fix this (FreeBSD's termcap is badly-undermaintained). All you need to do is take the termcap that's part of the xterm distribution, paste it at the front of your /usr/share/misc/termcap, and regenerated the termcap database. Any competant sys-admin can do this. > > xterm-color is always incorrect for xterm and rxvt... > > (it happens to work if you don't care much about how well). > > > color 'ls' ignores the termcap and terminfo databases, btw. I had in mind (having forgotten that FreeBSD has a not-invented-here mentality) that they'd implemented a copy of the GNU 'ls', and didn't consider that they may have fixed one problem while introducing another... > CLICOLOR > > Use ANSI color sequences to distinguish file types. See LSCOLORS > below. In addition to the file types mentioned in the -F option some > extra attributes (setuid bit set, etc.) are also displayed. The > colorization is dependent on a terminal type with the proper > termcap(5) capabilities. The default ``cons25'' console has the > proper capabilities, but to display the colors in an xterm(1), for > example, the TERM variable must be set to ``xterm-color''. Other it's still wrong even if it's in the manpage (I think I'm more familiar with this stuff than the ostensible author of this manpage). > i use Eterm, but haven't had any problems with xterm-color. i know that > it's incorrect, but it works for me ok. you won't get default colors (by anything that relies on the termcap settings). hardcoded programs, of course, are not affected. > if anyone knows a better workaround, let me know. I haven't been counting, but I'm certain I've mentioned it at least once a week for the past year. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
