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Re: colorls in base



At 11:46 Uhr -0500 15.02.2019, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>| Please read it again - that is not what Rin said. In fact, he gave
>| technical reasons.
>
>I am not happy with the interaction, not the decision.

That's fine. I can understand that.

>| As did I - "relegate fluff to pkgsrc".  ;)
>
>Is coloring the output fluff? Would you feel the same way if someone
>added syntax highlighting to vi(1)? Would you find autoconfig errors
>in the kernel easier if they were red? Is file completion and command
>line editing fluff?

Yes, yes, no (they fly by too fast, anyway), no (then again, sh(1) and
csh(1) don't do that out of the box).

That's why I have to install XEmacs, tcsh and uucp from pkgsrc. Which is fine.

Cheerio,
hauke


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