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Re: Would bash ever use xterm color support as default?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Would bash ever use xterm color support as default? |
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Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:48:54 -0000 |
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shirish agarwal <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Most of us use bash by default. And bash is not intuitive atleast for
> people who are new to the system. I'm sure there have been suggestions made
> for this before & would be made after me and I guess the people maintaining
> bash would have some valid points why things like intelligent history
> completion, tab-completion, having color support have not been made
> defaults. Please lemme know any links or rationale which are behind these
> decisions.
> Couple of links https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Spec/EnhancedBash as well as
however the examples given are all hardcoded, and (given the limitation
to specific terminal types) more/less work without requiring any modification
to bash.
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