Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> It would both be logical, and help with testing (where one wouldn't >>> have to change one's login script) if dircolors tried to load >>> ~/.dircolors if no database is given and the file exists. >> >> Or just put this in your start-up script: >> >> d=.dircolors >> test -r $d && eval "$(dircolors $d)" > > That's fine, but, as always, good default behaviour is worth a hundred > times as much as configuration: it doesn't need a user to work it out, > read your mailing list message, or anything else. On the other hand, > you could improve the differential by putting the above tip in the > dircolors documentation.
Would you like to prepare a patch that adds to doc/coreutils.texi the sort of tip you would have liked to see? If so, contribution guidelines are here: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=HACKING;hb=HEAD _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
