Re: How to get slrn colored in xterm ?

[Peter Prohaska <reax@muc.de>]

First of all, the COLORTERM entry did exactly what I was looking for.

But why not adding something like that by default.
Since it works for all slang programs I think it should get into a
.deb-file.
 Its more easy to put a `#'-sign in front of some lines than searching for
the correct variable settings in the manuals.  Most users probably would
like colors by default, or could that lead into trouble with monochrome
displays?


On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> dpk wrote:
> > Add the following line to your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, depending
> > on which one you use:
> > 
> > xterm*customization:            -color
> > 
> > You may also choose to add it to /etc/X11/Xresources, to make it a
> > system-wide default.
> 
> Actually, though that will enable color for everything else, it will not
> help slrn or other slang-based programs. For those, you have to either use
> the command line option they have that enables color (for slrn, -C), or you
> need to set the COLORTERM environment variable. Here is an example of how I
> set the latter in my /etc/zshrc:
> 
> # Set COLORTERM for s-lang programs if this is a color terminal
> if [[ $TERM = "xterm" ]] || [[ $TERM = "linux" ]]; then
> 	export COLORTERM=y
> fi
> 
> For bash, you'd want something like this: (untested)
> 
> # Set COLORTERM for s-lang programs if this is a color terminal
> if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
> 	COLORTERM=y
> 	export COLORTERM
> fi
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo
> 


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