Mariusz Pękala schreef: > On 2006-01-07 15:53:39 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Here's the kind of output I get from etc-update, for example: > > [...] > >> ESC[1;34m+RC_VERBOSE="no"ESC[0;0m > > [...] > >> Clearly it's working, but.... not. This is in gnome-terminal, but >> the term in use doesn't seem to make any difference, and this is >> worse than nothing at all in terms of readablility (made even worse >> since using colordiff is intended to /enhance/ readability). >> >> Colordiff is set in /etc/etc-update.conf as recommended in the >> Wiki-- diff_command="colordiff -uN %file1 %file2", which seems to >> be right insofar as colordiff is working; it seems to me that the >> problem is that the term is not recognizing/escaping the color >> codes as color codes, and I don't know where to begin to find out >> why. I'm using the most recent colordiff available > > [...] > >> Does anybody have a clue what that might be? > > > What do you see in your terminal if you type this: ? printf > '\033[1;34m+RC_VERBOSE="no"\033[0;0m' > > If this is ok, then you know that your terminal is ok, and there is > something with colordiff...
za 01/07/06 18:49 Saffron: "He's my husband." Mal: "Well who in the damn galaxy isn't?" ~ motub -> printf '\033[1;34m+RC_VERBOSE="no"\033[0;0m' +RC_VERBOSE="no" <==this is blue And in fact, normally my terminals do display color correctly; in my prompt above, the date is pink, the fortune is white, the cwd is green, and the actual prompt is [EMAIL PROTECTED], then yellow again. > > Do you have any alias or function around colordiff? No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I have now removed, allowing it to rely solely on its sudo entry. But since I don't have any updates to diff until I get my other little problem fixed, But... sudo uses a sub-shell, as I have heard many times. Is it possible that colordiff just doesn't work *in sudo*? I admit, I never thought of that. This is why sudo gets on my nerves, convenient as it is; that stupid subshell seems to lack all kinds of basic (bash) shell functionality that I expect. Anyway, thanks for the ideas, I suspect that you've pointed me in the right direction. I'm sure I should be able to generate some updates shortly; I won't do all of them so that I can test various configurations and see if any of them work. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
