Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:34:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r337826 - stable/11/bin/ls Message-ID: <201808151934.w7FJYloG049357@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CACNAnaHnB0z3ufb3r%2BEKDkNKzPiondf1ORmu_tsbT4729ubzhQ@mail.gmail.com>
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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Rodney W. Grimes > <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > From the Linux man page at: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ls.1.html > > > > Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and > > with --color=never. With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only > > when standard output is connected to a terminal. The LS_COLORS > > environment variable can change the settings. Use the dircolors > > command to set it. > > > > Um, so by default we should not be doing any colour... and we are... > > > > I don't recall making any argument that we're trying to match GNU > ls(1) behavior. Furthermore, again, we aren't doing any color by > default- only when the COLORTERM environment variable is set. So we are intentially being different? > > ls(1) on FreeBSD historically honors -an- environment variable for > enabling color. Short history, long history it had no color support at all. > This environment variable is CLICOLOR. This commit > switched the environment variable honored to the more-standard > COLORTERM that is honored in other software and set by terminals that > are generally expected to be used with color. > > I'm writing an UPDATING entry for this now to notify these users that > they should remove COLORTERM from their environment if they do not, in > fact, want a colored terminal. Is that the only way to turn this off? That may not be desired either. Atleast GNU ls allows me to force it off on command invocation with --color=never, do we have an equivelent? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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