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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:51:40AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
> i hate logging on to a new system and having to adjust my .profile and
> .exrc to override all the whiz-bang shiny defaults that all the clever
> fifteen year-olds think are required. setting a path? reasonable.
> setting up color defaults for everything from ls to vim to my damned
> command-line prompt? knock it off!
And what *I* hate is that even setting TERM=vt100 or similar, which
should turn off all the colour crap what with vt100s being monochrome,
generally doesn't because the terminal emulators suck so hard.
--
David Cantrell | random organic glop and a metric fuckton of electricity
Perl may be the best solution for processing a text
file, but asking a group of Perl Mongers clearly isn't
-- aef, in #london.pm
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