From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 19 3:51:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883AC37BD51; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 03:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13ErS5-000J3H-00; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:51:45 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA55234; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:51:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:51:44 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000719115144.B55096@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000719044049.A52681@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@freebsd.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:50:57PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Anyone who thinks "multimedia ability" is in any way tied to the ability > to show a directory listing using terminal colours is either stupid, or > grossly ignorant of how computers work. This was a hyperbole (perhaps poorly chosen, i admit :) to illustrate the point that if it is this difficult, or at least non-intuitive to get a color 'ls' program working, it doesn't inspire faith in other issues being easy to fix. Again, i was making a casual comparison to linux, our closest relative whose users often give BSD a try. > Or perhaps we should add ls -S which plays ANSI music corresponding to the > type of file it lists so we can have true "ls multimedia support". Would > blinking characters correspond to "animation"? :-) I'll get right on it! ;) > > To sum it all up, i get frustrated when 'progress' is alluded to as being a > > crutch for 'lusers'. Computers are a tool to make life easier. Why the > > hell does liking colors (which help the brain organize information better) > > warrant being labeled as a luser? > > This isn't my argument with you..I called you on a dubious attempt to link > colours in the output of ls(1) with system multimedia support, where none > exists. I understand. Maybe i was unclear. This remark was actually a general response to a previous remark about colorls, but it wasn't from you. It was just a remark about colorls for 'lusers'. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message