From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 31 0:52: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005B137B6A0 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 00:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by david.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4V7ptR07386; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:51:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4V7ps124523; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:51:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4V7pss73073; Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:51:53 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Brian Somers Cc: Doug Barton , Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <20000531095153.A80830@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <200005310105.CAA44640@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i 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, 31-May-2000 at 02:05:54 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > 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 !". And even with the thing getting committed, he still would not get colors unless he ran 'ls -G' on FreeBSD. I never would like to act 'ls' as 'ls -G' as default (as Linux obviously does). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message