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 -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
