Somewhere around Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:07 , the world stopped and listened as [EMAIL PROTECTED] graced us with this profound tidbit of wisdom that would fulfill the enjoyment of future generations:
> Message: 20 > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:07:31 -0700 > From: Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Eric Anderson wrote: > > If I could figure out how to make sh do colors, I'd do it. :) > Please do not use colors in rc. Escape-sequenced colors make > unacceptable assumptions about the user and syslogd strips > escape sequences anyway, so it would be of no use to logged > consoles. Serial consoles introduce other problems with buggy > escape handling in third-party terminal programs. A good text > layout and descriptive status messages do far more for clarity > and readability than any use of color ever can. Let me add to that. About 10% of the male population has some color vision problem. Mine is a bit more than others. Everytime I get called to work on a Linux system, I have to go in and disable the colors as the reds and other colors become very hard to see against a dark background. The problem is the luminance value of colors such a red is quite low compared to others. That's one of the reasons why fire-trucks in this area are lime-green, as red trucks disappear into the blackness at night. If you add color make sure it is a user selectable option and not turned on by default. IMO everything you need to admin a system needs to be able to run on something as lowly as a pure serial terminal as the above poster notes. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
