[Alpine-info] Two Unresolved Issues: Character Set and 'X' in Quoted Response [RESOLVED]

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:


> I've been using rxvt for years and only recently had the need to change 

> the locale to UTF-8. Now urxvt is working well for me in alpine 

> (although it presents differently when I finish editing a reply and go 

> to send it). But, now I have a non-alpine issue: getting urxvt to use 

> the color settings in /etc/DIR_COLORS for directories, tarballs, images 

> and other file types when I issue the 'ls' command. I'm working on 

> resolving that.



Does urxvt work better for you than xterm?  I'm using Ubuntu.  And you?

If you didn't change anything else on your system, I'm not sure what the 
problem is with colors.  I assume you have an appropriate alias for ls 
that adds the desired --color=[something] option.  Check this command:

type ls

Are you using the bash shell?

I'm still seeing a lot lower memory usage for xterm than for urxvt on 
Ubuntu for some reason, completely invalidating the only reason I have 
heard for preferring urxvt.

Mike