Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:07:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r337826 - stable/11/bin/ls Message-ID: <201808151607.w7FG7Smo048317@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2CXe5uUu_OwsUiS2xK61bK9ccFYOyD=p6v9=Do3yGWwqw@mail.gmail.com>
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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On 14 August 2018 at 21:41, Rodney W. Grimes > <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > >> Author: kevans > >> Date: Wed Aug 15 01:29:02 2018 > >> New Revision: 337826 > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337826 > >> > >> Log: > >> MFC r337506: ls(1): Enable colors with COLORTERM is set in the environment > >> > >> COLORTERM is the de facto standard, while CLICOLOR is generally specific to > >> FreeBSD and ls(1). > > > > I have already seen one "Who enabled %&*@(#$@) colored ls output in 12?" > > Seems that the defaults for xfce terminal is to have COLORTERM. > > If xfce's default is to request colour via the de-facto environment > variable then we should generally honour it -- the answer to the > %&*@(#$@) question is "you did, via your terminal's default." And I pointed that out to them, but it is kinda a POLA, people have had to take explicit action to get colorls, that is no longer true and that suprises them when they see it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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