On 2018-11-05, Joseph Mayer <joseph.ma...@protonmail.com> wrote: > This is how to make OpenBSD's colorls show directories bright blue, > instead of dark blue which may be too dark to be readable on some > screens:
This is a general problem with the primitive 8/16-color system from ECMA-48 ("ANSI colors"). Some text colors only work well with a light background, some only with a dark background. > The colorls port [1] is interesting, its source [2] seems to be a fork > of the BSD codebase's ls dating back to 1980, the man page doesn't > mention any particular authorship, and its code was updated as > recently as this year. It's simply OpenBSD's src/bin/ls with a color patch from FreeBSD on top. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de