also sprach Bob Proulx <[email protected]> [2010.05.01.1817 +0200]: > ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00023.html > > Personally I think that the threshold for adding yet another option to > 'ls' should be quite high. Otherwise it would have many times as > many options as it already has now.
I certainly don't want another option; all the information is in the environment. If there's really someone out there parsing ls output for '->', they should be shot. The "standard" existed before the people behind it even knew of the need of something like Unicode. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems in seattle, washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.
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