Terminal color

m2azer · 02-09-2007, 04:20 PM

when using the FC6 terminal all of my folders, files have different colors and even when writing a css file I could tell if i have the right syntax because the color of the font is changing.
my questions is i recently installed CentOS but it doesn't have or I don't know how to turn on the color in the teminal - belive me i am not trying to look pretty its just very useful if you writing or debugging html, php or css since everything in different color

Thanks

Tinkster · 02-09-2007, 05:50 PM

Umm ... you're confusing a couple of different things here.
Seeing files and directories in different colours:
ls --color (some [in my opinion stupid] distributions do
this as an alias by default)

Editing stuff in color: has nothing to do with the above,
depends on the editor you're using.
vim - :syntax on
emacs - M-x global-font-lock-mode
others - use the man-page, Luke!

Cheers,
Tink

m2azer · 02-09-2007, 10:07 PM

Thank you for your response. I took your advice about "synatx on" and did a google search and it came back with that link http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...es-solved.html
which showed me that I only had vim-minimal so once i installed vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vim-common-6.3.046-0.40E.7
i was able to edit stuff in color again

Thanks for the help

Tinkster · 02-10-2007, 12:22 AM

You're most welcome!

Cheers,
Tink