Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Saturday 06 of June 2009 16:30:05 Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Kamil Dudka wrote: >>> I think we should improve documentation a bit. It is not only about hard >>> links. Some people may also want to disable file capabilities >>> highlighting, etc. Pádraig, what do you think? >> Well as discussed previously I'm not fond of this feature at all: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/threads.html#00287 >> TBH, the number of hardlinks has it's own column that one can quickly scan. >> The only argument I've seen for changing the color is "it would help". >> So I'd be happy to turn off this completely, or at least not enable it by >> default. > > If this is what users want, then fine by me. Let's make the final decision > if "turn off completely", or "not enable by default". I'll prepare the patch > for review.
Thanks Kamil for following this up. Turn off completely is my vote, as hardlinks have their own column. I polled my local LUG with a non leading question and nobody came up with a reason for coloring hardlinks. Eric voted for "not enable by default". Jim checked the functionality in originally. So I guess the middle ground is best of "not enable by default", though that will require adding documentation for the option. That's probably best to add in the dir_colors man page which is part of the linux man pages collection. Hmm, would this page be better located in coreutils? cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
