Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Hmm, it's worth adding a test at least to demonstrate that >> file permissions take precedence over hardlink coloring >> I.E. multi hardlinked png and exectuable files will be colored >> inconsistently. > > If I can interject a question here... I hope I will remember to turn > this back on when that becomes necessary, as I happen to think it is > useful. I am wondering, however, is it, or will it be possible to use MH > to assign a background color, and have the foreground color come from > whatever else would set one? It seems this would be the most useful.
I agree it would be useful to do but we don't support that unfortunately and can't really as existing user colour settings could be setting backgrounds. > This makes me think of something else, is 'ls' able to use 256- and > 24-bit-color escape sequences? Yep, it will just replace what ever strings are present: (seq 232 255;seq 254 -1 233) | while read c; do LS_COLORS="ex=48;5;$c" ls --color /bin/ls done cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
