[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[Mike Meyer]

In <32575854.2582371145467129800.JavaMail.root at vms063.mailsrvcs.net>, Sergey Babkin <babkin at verizon.net> typed:
> >From: Bill Vermillion <bv at wjv.com>
> 
> has some
> >color vision problem.  Mine is a bit more than others.   Everytime
> >I get called to work on a Linux system, I have to go in and disable
> >the colors as the reds and other colors become very hard to see
> >against a dark background.   The problem is the luminance value of
> >colors such a red is quite low compared to others. 
> The problem with Linux colors is that they have been
> designed to be used on the white background which is
> the xterm's default (and which I hate as it's tough
> on my eyes). Since I usually use the black background, 
> I disable them too.

So where do linux's blasted ls colors come from? It prints some file
type as green. Green on white is simply bad news, whether or not you
have vision problems. I always have to go disable them (and some linux
distros make them *hard* to disable).

	<mike
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