On 04/19/18 07:38, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:16:30 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >> >>> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >>> simple unreadable [...] > >> I use a light background in my terminal and use color.map to deal with >> it. You can replace specific colours in color.map as well as changing >> colours for functions, such as: >> >> green = purple >> yellow=brown > > Hmm. I never could get that to work acceptably, but maybe I should try > again. Does anybody have a color.map they'd care to share for > terminals with white backgrounds? >
My /etc/portage/color.map simply has: green = purple yellow = darkred darkyellow = turquoise I just did a `emerge -ep world` and I can read all of the output. It's really only the lighter colours you need to worry about. I only have the one machine I have a white background on, and now I can't even remember why I set it that way. Dan
