Re: Bug#801654: dircolors: Please support colors on TERM=screen.xterm-256color

[Pádraig Brady]

On 13/10/15 04:11, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 8.23-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> josh@jet:~$ TERM=screen.xterm-256color dircolors
> LS_COLORS='';
> export LS_COLORS

> screen in current unstable seems to set TERM to screen.xterm-256color if
> running in a terminal with TERM=xterm-256color.  (With TERM=xterm,
> screen uses TERM=screen, which dircolors supports.)

It seems screen(1) has multiplied out the various 256 color variants recently:
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-screen-256color

I wonder should we add globbing support to TERM entries in dircolors?
I.E. add support for a general entry like:

  TERM *256color*

That would cater for all existing TERMs in Fedora's /etc/DIR_COLORS.256color
for example, and new entries following this common pattern.

Attached is a patch to do that.

dircolors-TERM-glob.patch
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