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Re: colorls in base
In article <l03102802d88ca02ad62b%q840.causeuse.org@localhost>,
Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost> wrote:
>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.
So the question then becomes: "Is something that you presumably need,
since you use everyday 'fluff'?"
Perhaps not 'need', but something that you prefer to use all the time.
christos
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