On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <free...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Rodney W. Grimes >> <free...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: >> > >> > From the Linux man page at: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ls.1.html >> > >> > Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default >> > and >> > with --color=never. With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only >> > when standard output is connected to a terminal. The LS_COLORS >> > environment variable can change the settings. Use the dircolors >> > command to set it. >> > >> > Um, so by default we should not be doing any colour... and we are... >> > >> >> I don't recall making any argument that we're trying to match GNU >> ls(1) behavior. Furthermore, again, we aren't doing any color by >> default- only when the COLORTERM environment variable is set. > > So we are intentially being different? >
No, we are not intentionally being different. See: the next paragraph, where I described that we've now-historically been honoring an environment variable for this and have simply added a more standard name for this variable. >> >> ls(1) on FreeBSD historically honors -an- environment variable for >> enabling color. > > Short history, long history it had no color support at all. Color support in ls(1) is now old enough to drink having been introduced in 2000- I think that's long enough to call it "historically" here in 2018. > >> This environment variable is CLICOLOR. This commit >> switched the environment variable honored to the more-standard >> COLORTERM that is honored in other software and set by terminals that >> are generally expected to be used with color. >> >> I'm writing an UPDATING entry for this now to notify these users that >> they should remove COLORTERM from their environment if they do not, in >> fact, want a colored terminal. > > Is that the only way to turn this off? > That may not be desired either. > Atleast GNU ls allows me to force it off on command invocation > with --color=never, do we have an equivelent? > Sure- it gets turned off the same way it got turned on. =) I'm certainly not averse to adding a --color long option, and will do so when I find the time (later today, most likely). Thanks, Kyle Evans _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
