Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, for those who prefer British spellings, should we be looking >> at supporting colour synonyms (dircolours, LS_COLOURS, ls --colour, >> etc.)? > > No, option and environment variable names are American English. If we > wanted to localize them (I'm dubious), we should support French, > Chinese, etc., not just British English.
I agree. The original patch that added this feature also had British spellings, and I removed them, for just those reasons. > Jim, what do you think? Is the following minor patch worth the > hassle? It does save a couple of hundred bytes in the dircolors > executable, but its main advantage to my mind is that it shortens the > code by about 30 lines and removes some casts. Sure. That's an improvement. Thanks, Paul. In any case, Eric, you're right. There's a marked lack of documentation in this area. Any patches to remedy that would be welcome. I applied your tiny ls --help change. I too prefer to put documentation in --help output and/or coreutils.texi. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
