Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:53:17 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org>, Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <20000601175317.W560@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <200006011630.aa92172@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:30:39PM %2B0100 References: <200006011630.aa92172@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:30:39PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > > less is a port, for this exact reason. > > I presume you know what more has been removed from the tree in 5.X > and replaced by less. Also csh has been removed and replaced with > tcsh. > > Personally I think the fact that alot of people expect a colourising > ls in the base system, and the relatively small nature of the change > make it worth it. What we really need is either some sort of > objective metric to evaluate these type of changes, or a simple > system where people vote and see what the general feeling is. I intend to commit this in the next day. I use a colourised ls day to day and it annoys me that they don't operate in the same was as the native /bin/ls. (For instance they don't support file flags). It only adds one and a half kb to the binary, and I don't see why it shouldn't be added. (Defaulting to no colour, so that compatibility is preserved.) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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