On 24/10/17 10:39, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 24/10/17 08:52, Michael Stone wrote: >> There's no mention of the QUOTING_STYLE environment variable on the ls >> man page or help output. What about changing >> >> --quoting-style=WORD use quoting style WORD for entry names: >> literal, locale, shell, shell-always, >> shell-escape, shell-escape-always, c, escape >> >> to something like >> >> --quoting-style=WORD use quoting style WORD for entry names: >> literal, locale, shell, shell-always, >> shell-escape, shell-escape-always, c, escape >> (overrides QUOTING_STYLE environment variable) >> >> Which both hints that the environment knob exists and specifies their >> precedence. > > Good idea. The following is pushed in your name: > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=9fa178f
For reference, env vars are not ideal for user preferences as they're significant when parsing command output (not a tty). I.E. globally set env vars in user settings may cause bugs in scripts. This is not a big deal in this case as QUOTING_STYLE=literal is already the default for non tty. Also ls output is exceedingly hard to parse in a robust manner and is best avoided anyway. cheers, Pádraig.
