On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 06:31:48PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:55:44 +0200 > From: Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> > Message-ID: <20180913105544.gb23...@mail.duskware.de> > > | On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:47:59PM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote: > | > export TERM=wsvt25 > | > > | > makes a number of console applications display colors. > | > > | > Why is this not the default? > | > | It should be the default for newer installs, but it is not changed on > | updates. > > And for why, vt100 is more likely to work than anything else that could > be picked aside from "dumb" - including for serial consoles (not everyone > uses a wscons, even on amd64 installs). > > And also, most apps that use colours (terminal colours, where the supported > choices are usually quite limited) are *ugly* and having them supressed > is no loss at all! > > kre > >
Gotta drop my pumpkin spice latte and show off my favourite terminal program, the fish shell. It doesn't even work in vt100, I assume because they thought nobody would be using it in 2018. https://i.imgur.com/1R8Ae1j.png - It's red because there's no 'l' command - always suggesting an auto completion if it can, based on commands that start the same as my command in history, but greyed out - if I use tab, it lets me scroll through the options listed. Similarly, it has a really clever thing for things that tlook like paths to be red if they don't exist. I really like it because I also have it configured with a key binding ^T to launch fzf, which stops the need to type long pathnames: it does a fuzzy search of the path for similar executables, so if I want to edit: work/MyPackage-1.2.3/src/actualfiles/filename.c I can just do: pkgvi ^T filename and get something like this: https://i.imgur.com/BEC7HRG.png and it will save me all the work about caring about how deeply nested pkgsrc files get.
