From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 30 18:15:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from vuurwerk.nl (envy.vuurwerk.nl [194.178.232.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7740A37BECC for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 18:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petervd@vuurwerk.nl) Received: (qmail 19609 invoked from network); 31 May 2000 01:15:20 -0000 Received: from kesteren.vuurwerk.nl (HELO vuurwerk.nl) (194.178.232.59) by envy.vuurwerk.nl with SMTP; 31 May 2000 01:15:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 23926 invoked by uid 11109); 31 May 2000 01:15:20 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 03:15:20 +0200 From: Peter van Dijk To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <20000531031520.G23087@vuurwerk.nl> References: <200005310105.CAA44640@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005310105.CAA44640@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 02:05:54AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 02:05:54AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: [snip] > 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 !!!!" Yes, some distro's do color by default. I actually like that. You perhaps do not. If we don't do colors by default on FreeBSD, nobody's feelings will get hurt, since there is no noticeable change. > I smugly said "Hah, you won't get any of that kak in FreeBSD !". Yes, but having the _option_ is *always* a good thing. Greetz, Peter. -- petervd@vuurwerk.nl - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message