From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 30 14:46:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9C937B6D9 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 14:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA72620; Tue, 30 May 2000 22:50:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01750; Tue, 30 May 2000 22:46:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200005302146.WAA01750@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls In-Reply-To: Message from Doug Barton of "Tue, 30 May 2000 08:40:06 PDT." <200005301540.IAA84495@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:46:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message