[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[Bill Vermillion]

They all laughed on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 13:32  when Mike Meyer said:
 
> In <32575854.2582371145467129800.JavaMail.root at vms063.mailsrvcs.net>, Sergey Babkin <babkin at verizon.net> typed:
> > >From: Bill Vermillion <bv at wjv.com>
> > 
> > has some
> > >color vision problem.  Mine is a bit more than others.   Everytime
> > >I get called to work on a Linux system, I have to go in and disable
> > >the colors as the reds and other colors become very hard to see
> > >against a dark background.   The problem is the luminance value of
> > >colors such a red is quite low compared to others. 
> > The problem with Linux colors is that they have been
> > designed to be used on the white background which is
> > the xterm's default (and which I hate as it's tough
> > on my eyes). Since I usually use the black background, 
> > I disable them too.
> 
> So where do linux's blasted ls colors come from? It prints some file
> type as green. Green on white is simply bad news, whether or not you
> have vision problems. I always have to go disable them (and some linux
> distros make them *hard* to disable).

I just checked in on one Linux machine I admin - SuSE 9.2 - and the
colors are set with the variable LS_OPTIONS.   

I've set LS_OPTIONS to '-N --color=none -T 0'

And looking at the .bashrc there is also a test for the binary
dircolors, and then looks for user files .dir_colors

I also notice that as shipped the .bashrc has a comment line
that says   If LS_COLROS is set but empty the terminal has no
colors.

It is spelled COLROS not COLORS - but that's just cosmetic and
sloppy.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com