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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:26:10 -0500
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r337956 - in head: . bin/ls
Message-ID:  <CACNAnaEETxxJX-_S81cwe5R9TcpY6u8OaSdc7u8voLp%2Bi09qBA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201808171524.w7HFOdQi059798@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201808170415.w7H4Fp7D046775@repo.freebsd.org> <201808171524.w7HFOdQi059798@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> Author: kevans
>> Date: Fri Aug 17 04:15:51 2018
>> New Revision: 337956
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337956
>>
>> Log:
>>   ls(1): Add --color=when
>>
>>   --color may be set to one of: 'auto', 'always', and 'never'.
>>
>>   'auto' is the default behavior- output colors only if -G or COLORTERM are
>
> Why different than coreutils ls?   Default for coreutils is none.

I guess this was worded poorly and you skipped both the review and
reading the diff... this is still contingent on environment variables
or -G being specified.

>>   set, and only if stdout is a tty.
>>
>>   'always' is a new behavior- output colors always. termcap(5) will be
>>   consulted unless TERM is unset or not a recognized terminal, in which case
>>   ls(1) will fall back to explicitly outputting ANSI escape sequences.
>>
>>   'never' to turn off any environment variable and -G usage.
> Why different than core utils?  Coreutils uses none.

I guess this was worded poorly and you skipped both the review and
reading the diff... this is still contingent on environment variables
or -G being specified.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans



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