From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 1 9:53:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E6537BE9E for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (postfix@genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA56154; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:53:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 8236F7D; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:53:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:53:17 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: David Malone Cc: Stefan `Sec` Zehl , Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <20000601175317.W560@pavilion.net> References: <200006011630.aa92172@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006011630.aa92172@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:30:39PM +0100 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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