Monday, March 25, 2024

Re: No coloring with colorls

Dear Amelia,

In which configuration file can I change this? Is 'wsvt25' universally
suitable for use?

Op 26-03-2024 om 00:03 schreef Amelia A Lewis:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:40:52 +0100, Karel Lucas wrote:
>> After installing colorls and making some adjustments to the system, I
>> still have no colored output from colorls. Below I have indicated the
>> settings that have been made or are present by default. I would like
>> to know what is wrong and what needs to be improved.
>>
>> Default environment:
>> TERM=vt220
> $ pkg_info -q colorls
> ls(1) that can use color to display file attributes
>
> This is a simple hack, taken from FreeBSD, to OpenBSD's ls(1) to
> use ANSI sequences to display file attributes in color. There is
> a -G flag (somewhat similar to the -F flag). Take a look at the
> man page for details. The program is called "colorls", so you may
> want to use an alias such as ls=/usr/local/bin/colorls.
>
> Note that you need a color-capable terminal to enable colorls. This
> means you should set your TERM to "wsvt25" on the wscons(4) console
> and to "sun-color" when using the Sun console, not "vt220" and
> "sun", respectively, which are not color-capable in termcap(5).
>
> Maintainer: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@openbsd.org>
>
> Amy!

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