"Lenny Domnitser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some terminals such as M-x shell in Emacs don't understand color > output, and set the TERM environment variable to "dumb". ls should > check that variable when turning on color from --color=auto.
The value of TERM has no influence on the color output, only LS_COLORS does, which is produced by dircolors (which does check TERM). The option --color=auto is synonymous to --color=tty, it only matters whether the output is a tty. If you don't want any colorization you need to unset LS_COLORS. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
