Re: Newbie question
Alan Shutko wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <nnorman@micromuse.com> writes:
>
> > Huh? "ls --color=auto" does the right thing.
>
> Unless something is using a pty to talk to ls. But that only disturbs
> emacs shell mode, afaik.
It also won't work for anyone who wants to pipe ls into a pager. This,
to me, is the most annoying thing about the idea of changing a program's
behavior simply based on whether stdout is a tty. A better question
would be whether the chain of pipes ultimately leads to a tty, but
that's a trickier problem to solve, I suppose.
Craig
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