On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...Having two > different quoting modes, where you can choose between the options, may > be the way to go - but then you STILL have the problem of what to pick > as the default of those two modes when neither one was explicitly > requested. > Exactly. So if you want to call ls' old behavior "broken", which I presume that one would do to justify creating this change, then your choices boil down to: - Leave decades of behavior in place, and deal with "broken" output, or - Create new, different broken output. It boggles my mind that someone decided we should have a new default. The output is not better, confusingly, the output is different depending on if you send to terminal or not, and I have not seen any great desire in the community for this change. -- -Mike Schwager
