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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: (Ab?)using aliases to set ls' and others' colours
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:17:39 +0200
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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Hi Tobias,

> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>> Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling wrote:
>>> ls has a colored output. Nice.
>>> ls | less has ugly escape sequences. Only ls --color=3Dno | less
>>> works.
>>
>> I'd be surprised if =E2=80=98ls | less -R=E2=80=99 didn't (and that woul=
d be a bug).
>>
>> Otherwise, this is standard behaviour for both =E2=80=98ls=E2=80=99 and =
=E2=80=98less=E2=80=99.
>
> Apologies, I made a reado.
>
> =E2=80=98ls | $foo=E2=80=99 should indeed detect a missing tty and stop s=
pewing colour
> automatically. At least if =E2=80=98ls=E2=80=99 is properly aliased to =
=E2=80=98ls
> --color=3Dauto=E2=80=99.
>
> Instead, it is aliased[0] to use =E2=80=98--color=E2=80=99 =E2=80=94 shor=
t for =E2=80=98ls
> --color=3Dalways=E2=80=99 =E2=80=94 for reasons I cannot understand. We d=
o the same for
> =E2=80=98grep=E2=80=99.

I think this is simply a mistake.  Using =E2=80=9C--color=3Dauto=E2=80=9D i=
s correct here.

> On the other hand, what I consider an obvious bug has been around
> since literal forever[1], so maybe I'm missing something obvious
> here. I've CC'd the original author. If everyone agrees or nobody
> responds, I'd like to change it to something less aggressive before
> 0.15.[2]

No objections from me.  Thank you!

--
Ricardo