[nycbug-talk] mac os termcap question

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 14, 2005, at 10:39 AM, steve rieger wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Feb 14, 2005, at 10:06 AM, steve rieger wrote:
>>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>>> In Terminal, go to Preferences. Click on the Declare terminal type 
>>>> ($TERM) pop-up menu to change to vt100 (or whatever).
>>>
>>>
>>> if you keep it on xterm-colour you also might have vi issues, 
>>> (although this does not afect vim)
>>>
>>> as stated change it to vt100 works for me no problem
>> It's a trade-off, of course.  ls -G won't be colored if you are using 
>> vt100.
>
> an assuming that we are using a black background with green text, most 
> colours will make it harder to see

Uh, I guess, but not using colors makes it harder to distinguish 
between types of files.  I use gray on black.

-bob