On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:55:55AM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> If that's the case, why don't we change our termcap so that "xterm" and
> "xterm-color" are the same thing, and "xterm-mono" is there for people
> who _reall_ don't want color, or have a monochrome display, or whatever.
> It seems really dumb not to have colour by default, but perhaps there's
> a good reason.

FWIW, I've just tried "TERM=xterm-color ls -G" inside a
Solaris xterm, which does not support color.  Nothing bad happened.
The xterm just ignored the color codes instead of producing any
sort of garbage.

Unless anyone knows of an xterm that barfs on color codes, I would
support this change.

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