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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:26:47PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2007-04-04, felix@×××××××.com <felix@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)? |
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> > Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre |
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> > colors scattered all over my screen? |
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> Yea, nothing is quite as readible as yellow or bright green on |
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> a white background. I hate color output. I'm completely |
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> baffled that anybody thinks it should be the default. |
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<sarcasm>All you have to do is double your font size and they become |
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quite legible.</sarcasm> |
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> > I CAN'T EVEN DISABLE IT BY SETTING TERM TO vt100. |
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> > And if ALL THESE CAPS distress you and you think I am shouting, well |
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> > goodness gracious, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT COLORIZATION RUN AMUCK. |
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> Worse than emerge is that ls and other more commonly used |
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> utilities all default to utterly-illegible mode on Gentoo. |
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At least ls's color comes from that damned alias. You can at least |
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use "/bin/ls" or prefix each command with "TERM=vt100" to get rid of |
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them temporarily, or "unalias -a" to get rid of them permanently per |
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login, or edit /etc/profile to get rid of them permanently forever. |
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At least the color options actually work. |
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Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com |
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o |
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