Re: color ls (fwd)

1996-08-01 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Answer from Jim Meyering (GNU fileutils mainstream maintainer): > | I copied this to Jim Meyering hoping that he might be able to answer > | your question Michael. > | > | Michael Meskes writes: > | > Erick Branderhorst writes: > | > > This file is in the origianl fileutils source name: dircolors

Re: color ls (fwd)

1996-08-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Thanks for forwarding this note by Jim Meyerding. I like his ignoring of /etc/DIR_COLORS, I always found that filename rather ugly and kept my own file /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc for these colour settings. IMHO, two things remain: - the fileutils maintainer should patch dircolors so tha

Re: color ls (fwd)

1996-08-01 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Jim Meyering responded: > | This come to via debian mailing list and is about how to activate > | color support for ls. I think the default should be no color at > | all but I doubt if so much aliases as in the message below are the > | proper way to activate color support. Can't this be done i