Re: Incorrect file contents from C-x v ~

[Richard Stallman]

    ls uses code to determine if it's talking to a terminal or not.  Would a 
    trick like that work for lsh (use CVS mdoe if not talking to a terminal)

The GNU coding standards say programs should not alter their output
according to where the output is going.  This leads to unreliability
and unpredictability.  (It causes inconvenience in ls, also, but I
decided that compatibility with POSIX outweighs that inconvenience.)