From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HaXYo-0007Br-7K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:36:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l38DXu9j024942; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:33:56 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l38DP9vs010624 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:25:09 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BE964C4A for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:25:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.163 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.163 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.163, PLING_QUERY=0.326] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CnV31rNqgMuQ for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE87648F4 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HaXO3-0004Pg-Lu for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:24:55 +0200 Received: from 84-72-80-81.dclient.hispeed.ch ([84.72.80.81]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:24:55 +0200 Received: from listen by 84-72-80-81.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:24:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:24:43 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?LsK3Lg==?= Message-ID: <49018461.rAkjuduvhM@m-id.message-center.info> References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> <87fy7glkzg.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <200704040822.13232.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <200704051807.36759.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1175838525.24824.7.camel@bunyip.localdomain> <87wt0qowqc.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-72-80-81.dclient.hispeed.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l38DXu9x024942 X-Archives-Salt: 74815ed8-c26c-4986-a7d6-c0e84c88ef51 X-Archives-Hash: 28da2000f2a021e3180f4515afa56ab3 =C2=B7 Graham Murray : > Or why when run in a console the output stays on the screen when you > exit less, thus allowing you to refer to it when typing the next > command, but in an X terminal it 'collapses' to just the command > prompt on exit.=20 That's because of certain features the terminal advertises in its "termcap". I don't know which, but I do know, that this is the reason. Alexander Skwar --=20 Leela: Oh no, there's no exhaust pipe. Project Satan: That's right. Thanks to Ed Begley Jr.'s electric motor,= the=20 most evil propulsion system ever conceived! --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list