Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 04:16:33 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 245270] ls(1) man page describes LSCOLORS wrong Message-ID: <bug-245270-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245270 Bug ID: 245270 Summary: ls(1) man page describes LSCOLORS wrong Product: Documentation Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: Manual Pages Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: deepbluemistake@gmail.com CC: doc@FreeBSD.org Created attachment 212969 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=212969&action=edit diff to ls.1 The ls man page https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ls&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/bin/ls/ls.1 describes the colors wrong. I checked ls's code, and indeed it can and does use ANSI color, so the actual ANSI standard can be referenced for color names and behavior: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-048.pdf Especially since the man page also references ANSI in the LSCOLORS section. Discovered this on 12.1-RELEASE-p3 but wrote and attached a patch for the ls.1 currently seen in the GitHub repository (presumably -current) Important to note is that some terminals do not have separate colors for bold and non-bold text. Some terminals do have separate colors, of course, but not all. Semi-relatedly, and not dealt with in this patch or bug report: LSCOLORS's format is deficient, anyway. Setting it to bC, Bc, or BC provides the same output. The colors struct in ls's print.c has bold-status, foreground color, and background color as three different items. The LSCOLORS string should have them as three different characters too, rather than conflating boldness with one of the colors. Hence I think bc should be 0bc and Bc, bC, and BC should be 1bc -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.help
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