From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 24547@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24547: 24.4; dired should colour in sockets and pipes
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 12:17:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190801021700.GA924@goll.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftmmrkzr.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> What are the remaining special file types possible in ls output?
>> [dircolors --print-database]
>
> [...] what would be a common word for these special file types:
> pipe, socket, block and character device?
>
> Currently the face name is 'dired-socket', but this doesn't seem right
> since it's used not only for socket, but also for pipe, block and character
> devices. Is 'dired-special' a better name? At least the manual
> (info "(coreutils) What information is listed") named them "special file".
dired-special makes sense to me, and I can't think of a better term.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-01 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 8:05 bug#24547: 24.4; dired should colour in sockets and pipes Trent W. Buck
2019-07-27 14:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-27 22:07 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-28 10:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 14:53 ` Trent W. Buck
2019-07-31 20:45 ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-01 2:17 ` Trent W. Buck [this message]
2019-08-01 11:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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