In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> I too, would like to see similar colours to what I used to, when I was
> running Mandrake. For example, you'd get different file types shown in
> different colours (when doing "ls") & even in vi you'd get code coloured
> in a nice & helpful fashion. Editing HTML was a joy!
You can either alias ls to "ls -C", or install the gnuls port and make
sure that ls is first in your path. You may need to find which vi -
there are at least three - you were using on mandrake, and install
that. Other than the system one, there are vim and nvi in the
ports. Hopefully, a vi user will chime in with which ones do syntax
coloring.
> My favoured shell is zsh (it's what we use at work, so I am sticking
> with it) & I've searched for some .zshrc examples but not had any great
> joy I'm afraid.
zsh does colors just fine if you set the term type to xterm-color.
You need to do:
autoload -U colors
colors
in your .zshrc to enable them, then you can use them in your
prompts. I set my RPROPMT like so:
RPROMPT=" %{$fg_no_bold[magenta]%}%~%{$reset_color%}"
to have it display the current directory in magenta.
As an aside, one of the things I *hated* about a couple of linux
distributions was that they enabled colors for things by default. In
three differente places. Turning that stuff off was a major pain. I
can understand having it on by default, but I ought to be able to turn
it off by editing my .bashrc (or similar), without having to edit two
system files as well.
<mike
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