Re: ls - color by default
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:21:08PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Yeah, great point. Problem is I (for one) don't know HOW to compile
> "--color" as the default. Same thing with "less" as the default pager
> instead of "more", sure would be great to have that be standard. Maybe
> someone could make a .deb package with all the cool "options" as defaults:
Less as default pager, add to /etc/profile:
export PAGER=less
or /etc/csh.login
setenv PAGER less
Similarly you can add "alias ls /bin/ls --color".
> color prompts
I don't think there is a terminal-independent way to do this.
The way discussed on this list recently will only work on the console,
xterm/rxvt, and ansi/vt100/etc terminals, but not others like vt52,
wyse etc.
Hamish
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