[link] Customizing vim and coloring the terminal in OpenSolaris 2009.06
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Hehehe. Somebody tries to make some use of Solaris.... Good Luck. Piece of advice though: upgrade to Linux, it's faster that way. Do not get me wrong... ... BUT WHAT THE F***?! This is year 2009 and Solaris still can't take care of colors?
P.S. BTW, Good Luck trying to use "TERM=xterm-color" though. Last I time I tried it on Solaris only to find that it is lacking something like half keyboard.
Really. Get over it, swallow your childish pride and get the Linux. It works.
3 comments:
Using (open)solaris since 2006 as main desktop... I never had problem with syntax coloring nor keyboard and no major difference with Debian or *BSD (nothing that can't be solved within 2 minutes). When it comes to Solaris, some users seem a bit biased.
Please, moderate your comments when you're not sure of the validity of your claims. Rhetorical question: what's the point of criticizing something you don't use ?
PS: Using Debian GNU/Linux since 2003, Switched my laptop to (Open)Solaris three years ago. Never switched back.
PS2:
acheron> echo $TERM
xterm-color
No offense.
Kind regards,
a.
"Please, moderate your comments"
Why the hell you think that place's called "blog"? ;)
"... when you're not sure of the validity of your claims. Rhetorical question: what's the point of criticizing something you don't use?"
If you are saying that there is a difference between commercial Solaris 10 (which I unfortunately have to use sometimes) and OpenSolaris - then I'm very glad to hear it.
That means there is a chance that they would fix the mess they made out of Solaris.
Probably they would also throw away they /bin/vi junk and finally replace it with a text editor, e.g. one which actually supports keyboard.
But again I forgot...
Officially, Sun supports on Solaris 10 only "dtterm" - not "xterm".
Unless they would also fix their eternally crappy termcap/terminfo - including e.g. VIM would improve not much.
Do not get me wrong, in Solaris 10 it works already better than it did in 2.6-2.8.
But still, they do not have "less" ("more" doesn't cut it anumore), native awk and sed are also useless, their "tar" is a piece junk which has to be immediately replaced by GNU tar. List goes on.
If you do not see difference between Linux and OpenSolaris, I wonder why Sun intentionally holds back Solaris - their commercial offering.
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