-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 4/29/2005 3:07 PM: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>bash TAB-completion with readline's `set visible-stats on' uses '%' >>for character-special devices and '#' for block-special devices. > > > Aack. FreeBSD "ls" uses "%" for whiteouts, and nothing for special > files. I'd rather not have gratuitous incompatibility.
I take it whiteouts are another form of special file, unique to FreeBSD? What about proposing '^' (with the mnemonic pronounciation caret) as the character-special indicator, to the bash mailing list? And can coreutils detect whiteouts on FreeBSD systems, to offer them '%' and colorization status (similar to how Solaris doors get '>' and dircolors recognizes DOORS)? Also, I noticed that the comments in lib/filemode.c list a few filetypes for the first character of `ls -l' that are not mentioned in the info pages, such as 'n' for network special file. Do any of the other recognized file types deserve their own indicator flag? > + ls changes: > + > + -p now appends '/' only to directories; it is equivalent to the > + new option --indicator-style=directory. Use --file-type or > + --indicator-style=file-type to get -p's old behavior. > + Previously, `ls --classify' was short for `ls --indicator-style=classify', and `ls --file-type' was short for `ls --indicator-style=file-type'. But `ls --directory' already exists; is there a better choice of indicator names to allow parallelism for a shorter spelling of `ls - --indicator-style=directory'? Perhaps `ls --mark-directory'? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCdihG84KuGfSFAYARAqebAKDOHcObNcDf5S9PUU+Gy3u6rio4EQCfWy/K 9Dy+lqOQF0SR3QLalWTNJwQ= =cOuy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
