Christian Groessler <ch...@groessler.org> wrote: > On 2/15/19 10:28 PM, m...@netbsd.org wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:17:55PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote: >>> On 2/15/19 8:15 PM, m...@netbsd.org wrote: >>>> For the record I support the change. I don't think it's very hard not >>>> to turn on colors. You can turn them off even in linux. >>> >>> "You can turn them off even in linux." >>> >>> How do you do it? >>> >> unalias ls, this is being done by ~/.bashrc > > Then I lose the "-F" parameter which I'm used to. But yes, this is the > first thing I normally do when I encounter such a colorized system. I > need to setup my own .bashrc to have it at every login (I'm using bash, > yes).
Some Linux systems have it the shared startup file in /etc, some have it in the skeleton .bashrc that they copy when an account is created. In the former case there's unalias -a, in the latter case you can delete/comment it out (I also never quite understood why would people use aliases instead of functions :) unlias -a l() { ls -aCF "$@"; } ll() { ls -alF "$@"; } # etc, etc >> make things hard to people who are color blind, when red/green color >> blindness is so common. > > Thanks. Someone who ultimatively understands my problem. I have a mild deuteranomaly too. I don't confuse traffic lights, but I do fail red/green parts of the Ishihara test. E.g. :) https://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/fuck-the-colorblind/ I actually had to ask releng to tweak the builds page at http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/builds.cgi to make it more readable (it's still not ideal, but better), b/c the usual red/green selection is not enough of a contrast when font is rendered in thin lines of a pixel or two. At least in this case the color coding is secondary, as the the column itself is an indicator. -uwe