Re: colorls: How to make the blue bright for readability, and a note about its origins

[Christian Weisgerber]

On 2018-11-05, Joseph Mayer  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

Re: colorls: How to make the blue bright for readability, and a note about its origins

[Chris Bennett]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:53:58AM +, Joseph Mayer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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:
> 
>  export LSCOLORS="Ex"
> 
> As pointed out elsewhere colorls is taken in use as default ls by:
> 
>  alias ls="colorls -G"
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Best regards,
> Joseph
> 
> [1] https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/sysutils/colorls/
> 
> [2] http://shell.uugrn.org/~naddy/ls-6.3.tar.gz
> 

export LSCOLORS=Hxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad

I also had problems reading that color on a black background.
These will make directories white, if that is helpful.
I don't remember any of the details. I think I saw this on a website
somewhere. Not sure.

Good Luck,
Chris Bennett