From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 30 18:11:24 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 554A337BFCE for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 18:11:17 -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 CAA74007; Wed, 31 May 2000 02:06:00 +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 CAA44640; Wed, 31 May 2000 02:05:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200005310105.CAA44640@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Doug Barton Cc: Brian Somers , Tim Vanderhoek , 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 17:46:34 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 02:05:54 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I don't see anyone asking for 'ls' to wash their breakfast dishes > for them. The facts remain: > > 1. People _do_ want this. It gets asked often on -questions. > 2. The code is already written. > 3. It adds almost no bloat. > 4. It's totally, completely optional. > > The only possible change I'd consider is making the colors the > same as gnuls' defaults. That'd flatten out the learning curve for people > coming over from linux, and those who like the traditional colors could > use the environment variable to set them. > > So, other than on "purist" grounds, are there any other > objections? Yes, but I can't think of any at the moment !!! The thing I really have a problem with (and this change isn't guilty of this anyway) was a few years ago I introduced FreeBSD into my workplace and everyone was quite happy with it (although they were used to sysv and had big problems with ps). Then someone else brought up a Linux box, and there was an outcry: "What's this crap on my screen ? I ran ``ls'' and it came out in colour !!!!" I smugly said "Hah, you won't get any of that kak in FreeBSD !". Bah ! > Doug > -- > "Live free or die" > - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire > > Do YOU Yahoo!? -- 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