Re: A question. Colors in Shell and Lynx

[Hugh Esco <hesco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all:

OK.  My thanks to Bart Bunting.

I rewrote the alias line for ls in the .bashrc file on Adam's machine and 
was able to correct the problem.  Although I see that this same line exists 
in my own .bashrc file, and that file names are rendered in color -- both 
when running ls from a shell and from an emacspeak shell, whether at a 
console or when invoked from an X session -- these spurious characters do 
not show up, nor are they spoken when I run an ls command on this 
machine.  I don't understand why.

But the follow up and I suspect related question which motivated this post 
is:

I get the same spurious characters in lynx.

cat /etc/lynx.cfg | grep color
yields a commented out line:
#ENABLE_LYNXRC:show_color:ON

but no lines with "color" included which are not comments.

As a sighted user who uses emacspeak generally only to support my friend 
Adam's learning curve, is there some way I can create an alternate lynx.cfg 
file which would be invoked when I launch lynx from inside emacspeak that 
would turn colors off, but which would stay out of my way when I'm working 
from a shell at a visual console?

Given that the line I thought would turn color on seems to be commented 
out, how is it I would turn colors off?

And also somewhat related, I'm working to rebuild our state Party's web 
site and have been studying cascading style sheets.  I see that I can tie a 
.css file to the media type used to render an .html page.  Are there any 
recommended models I could use as my standard .css for aural browsers?

I'd love to do what is possible to make our web site fully 
accessible.  Coaching Adam with w3c and lynx showed me that vast portions 
of our existing web site are inaccessible to the blind.

Thanks in advance for any clues.

-- Hugh Esco

At 10:16 PM 3/31/03 +1000, you wrote:
>Hugh Esco writes:
>
>most likely Your ls command is aliased to /bin/ls --color or something 
>similar.
>
>check .bashrc and or .bash_profile.
>
>Bart
>
>  > Adam is coming right along.  Coaching him by phone this evening, he got
>  > on-line for the first time without my presence.
>  >
>  > This evening's apt-get update / upgrade brought in updates to over 
> half of
>  > the packages on this Debian machine.  I then did an:
>  >      apt-get install w3-lisp-e21,
>  >      apt-get install w3-doc-el and
>  >      apt-get install vm
>  >
>  > which re-installed my entire emacs / emacspeak system with browser and 
> mail
>  > reader.  When I was through with that process, the tutorials were 
> suddenly
>  > a part of my Info tree, accessible from C-h i.  That was a major
>  > breakthrough for me.
>  >
>  > Still, I have another question tonight:
>  >
>  > When I invoke a shell from emacs or emacspeak, using M-x shell, my use of
>  > the ls command results in spurious extra characters showing up in the
>  > listing which make it difficult to discern what the contents of the
>  > directory listed out in the buffer is.  How do I configure my 
> installation
>  > so that does not happen?
>  >
>  > All help is appreciated.  Thanks.
>  >
>  > -- Hugh




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