From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: (Ab?)using aliases to set ls' and others' colours
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 20:01:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704200115.750f8ccd@alma-ubu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhz8eeh1.fsf@lapdog.tobias.gr>
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 13:38:34 +0200
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> > Björn Höfling wrote:
> >> ls has a colored output. Nice.
> >> ls | less has ugly escape sequences. Only ls --color=no | less
> >> works.
[..]
>
> Perhaps it was assumed that ‘--color’ on its own implies ‘auto’
> instead of ‘always’ (I could see how that could happen)? Or
> ‘--color=auto’ is too cautious, and disables colour in a situation
> where the author expects it? In that case I don't think the
> trade-off is worth it.
Just for reference: Here is what my Ubuntu has in /etc/skel/.bashrc:
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi
[..]
> Oh, I don't know.
>
> This is the kind of trivial bug that would've put me off a distro,
> I guess.
Yeah, it's one of those nasty little things that are totally silly but
on the other hand are expected to "just work".
Björn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-04 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 8:15 Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview Björn Höfling
2018-07-03 10:49 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-07-03 11:38 ` (Ab?)using aliases to set ls' and others' colours Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-07-04 18:01 ` Björn Höfling [this message]
2018-07-04 22:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 22:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-04 17:56 ` Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview Björn Höfling
2018-07-03 13:20 ` Marius Bakke
2018-07-03 13:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-03 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 14:10 ` KDFONTOP/PIO_UNIMAPCLR: Input/output error Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 14:29 ` Marius Bakke
2018-07-04 22:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-03 21:42 ` Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 18:06 ` Björn Höfling
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