Re: Color-ls package
On 16 Mar 1996, Raul Miller wrote:
> I think this has been pretty well thrashed out, but I just want to
> remind you of a couple issues:
Well, there are issues that I wasn't aware of such as taking a long time
in certain instances because of the stat, but that seems more like a
consequence of color ls having to determine the type of the file so it
knows how to colorize it, rather than a bug. I do understand that this
can be a problem for some, though. After somebody mentioned the bit about
the sockets and directories and such, I realize I wasn't thinking when I
said I thought it based it on the name only. I was thinking of the way it
determines compressed files and such by extensions.
>
> (1) programs that run ls under a pty (e.g. wish scripts using expect)
> can easily be confused by these sorts enhancements that change
> behavior.
>
Although there are problems some people might have, is this really one of
them? The default behaviour of color ls is to only colorize when it's
running on a tty. If it's redirecting the output somewhere else or
running on something other than a true tty it does not colorize unless
forced.
Given these issues, I think I'm in agreeance now that for now we ought
not to completely replace ls in the debian distribution entirely, but for
myself I don't have problems with any of these, and I'm going to leave it
as it is, with color ls as my ls.
Shawn
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