Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> writes:

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> Seriously most colors used in terminal apps fail in one or the other way.
> The cyan and bright yellow fonts for example used by many apps are just
> unreadable on my non l33t terminals (white background). So I need to fixup
> all vi installs on lunix to ":syn off" or I would go blind and don't get me
> started about colorls and seeing output of it *blink*.

"TERM=vt220 <shell>" usually cures the bloody colors.

//art