Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:46:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <200005302146.WAA01750@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> of "Tue, 30 May 2000 08:40:06 PDT." <200005301540.IAA84495@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> > The misc/colorls port adds the colorizing feature to ls and
> > installs the resulting executable as colorls.
> >
> > It would be nice to have this feature in /bin/ls so other changes
> > to /bin/ls don't have to be ported to the distfile on which
> > the misc/colorls port relies.
>
> > The resulting /bin/ls is 195720 bytes in size. It has been
> > 194568 bytes before so the difference is only 1152 bytes
> > which should be acceptable even for a file in /bin :-).
>
> For some absurd reason, including this in the base system has, in the
> past been some sort of religious war. It's high time for the aburdity to
> end. The facts about this are simple:
>
> Many people want it.
> If YOU don't want it, YOU don't have to use it.
> We have a good, working version.
> Looking at the current state of things, it adds almost nothing to the
> 3.5 megs of binaries in /bin.
[.....]
The unix way would be to have a ``colourise'' program - I could even
live with ``colorize'' !!! Making things look colourful is not the
job of ls(1).
After this is committed, the logical followup is a -p option to give
you the output a page at a time - using $PAGER so that ls won't get
too much bigger....
IMHO we don't need this in ls.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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