Ah, my mistake. It does make sense that the contents of the parentheses apply to the specification of WHEN.
Perhaps it could be reworded to "default if WHEN is omitted", although that does cause some repetition. Alternatively, the entire description could be modified, as on die.net[1]: "color the output. WHEN defaults to 'always' (if omitted) or can be 'never' or 'auto'. More info below." The issue here is that it might suggest that the user may not explicitly specify 'always'. Regarding the usage of 'colorize', I think the correction future proofs the documentation, given that I've never heard or seen it used. [1]https://linux.die.net/man/1/ls
