Paul Eggert wrote:
On 01/09/2017 12:00 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
I wasn't asking for a change to _that_ specific behavior.
You argued that it's not standard for 'ls' to behave differently when
piping output to a pager, and that the recent change was therefore
undesirable.
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I stand corrected for the historical behavior.
I also stand for it being strongly against GNU
standards to add more such behaviors.
As the premise for this argument was incorrect, it
shouldn't be surprising if readers disagree with its conclusion.
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Now you are deliberately excluding the fact. While my
initial stance was that it was engaging in non-standard behavior
(which is true) -- it is also the case that an exception was
made for 'ls' for historical behavior.
This is not historical behavior. 'ls' doesn't get
a carte blanc to change output anyway it wants because of
a specific historical behavior.
