From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 31 5: 2:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D199337B507 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 05:02:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA21695; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:00:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA52640; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:00:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.3/8.6.9) id IAA29719; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:00:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:00:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <200005311200.IAA29719@lakes.dignus.com> To: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Cc: brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, Doug@gorean.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca In-Reply-To: <20000531095153.A80830@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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). > Just as a question then... If the user who wanted colorized ls has to change to get it; why bother with putting this in the FreeBSD ls? I mean, there is a colorized ls port - right? So, you could simply install that one. Then, since the user has to change anyway - have him change to use the installed port... - Just a thought - - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message