Pádraig Brady wrote: > 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 sounds fine. > 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? Much of that would be nice to add. Other parts are not applicable. i.e., neither /etc/DIR_COLORS nor ~/.dir_colors is honored. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
