Re: [MiNT] vcons FAQ

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

> I freely admit that I'm sh*te at writing docs. Anyone want to lend a hand, here?

Sure. :)

> > and 2. the fact that I didn't get any colors. :)
> 
> I rarely get colours. Get colours where? Many MiNT programs aren't compiled to 
> use them... yet.

I telnetted to my linuxbox and tried the colored ls. :)

> No, you should use term=stv52, pretty much as is. (The termcap and terminfo 
> badly need rewriting -- DO NOT install the supplied termcaps and terminfos, 

NOW he tells me :)

> they could mess things up. I'm going to have to recover myself before I change 
> that to something more likely to work). It may be helpful to add the colour 
> codes and stuff to the termcap and terminfo entries, but I'm no expert on these 
> formats - I had to nick the man page from Digital UNIX to even be able to 
> figure it out at all... :)

Umm so the termcap/info entries don't know colors?

> easiest way to find out if you're in colour? Go into sh, and enter the vt52 
> colour codes directly. 

Ok I'll try that.. can't afford to reboot now, I'm online. :)

> Now all you have to do is find applications which use colour, and bask in the 
> glory. I, for one, have heard of a colourful ls implementation. I'd like to see 
> that, being able to tell file types apart even faster. Apparently, vim has some 
> sort of colour structure support. That'd be good. Any other notables?

Well i have the colored ls standard on my linux machines. Should be easily
ported to MiNT I guess.. and of course we could make the MiNT equivalent
of linux_logo. :)

Groetjes,

Maurits.