On 2018-11-05, Joseph Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is how to make OpenBSD's colorls show directories bright blue,
> instead of dark blue which may be too dark to be readable on some
> screens:
This is a general problem with the primitive 8/16-color system from
ECMA-48 ("ANSI colors"). Some text colors only work well with a
light background, some only with a dark background.
> The colorls port [1] is interesting, its source [2] seems to be a fork
> of the BSD codebase's ls dating back to 1980, the man page doesn't
> mention any particular authorship, and its code was updated as
> recently as this year.
It's simply OpenBSD's src/bin/ls with a color patch from FreeBSD
on top.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
