On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:24:22PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> i usually use xterm-color in FreeBSD even though you really shouldn't
> ever use 'xterm-color' since color 'ls' only works (AFAIK) when $TERM is
> set to this. on linux, i use xterm-xfree86, or sometimes just xterm.
xterm-color is always incorrect for xterm and rxvt...
(it happens to work if you don't care much about how well).
see
http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_terminfo
color 'ls' ignores the termcap and terminfo databases, btw.
> experiment with different TERM settings and terminal programs and see
> what works for you. personally i find Eterm nicer looking (after you
> mess with the default colors and stuff) than xterm or rxvt, although it
> can be a bit of a memory hog.
Both (XFree86) xterm and rxvt implement default colors, have done so since long
before Eterm was written. (There's no difference, except of course if you're
setting $TERM to xterm-color for one of the latter).
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