Alan Shutko wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Huh? "ls --color=auto" does the right thing. > > Unless something is using a pty to talk to ls. But that only disturbs > emacs shell mode, afaik.
It also won't work for anyone who wants to pipe ls into a pager. This, to me, is the most annoying thing about the idea of changing a program's behavior simply based on whether stdout is a tty. A better question would be whether the chain of pipes ultimately leads to a tty, but that's a trickier problem to solve, I suppose. Craig
