On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Gasper Cankar wrote: > I'm probably not the first with this idea so I guess that there's a > complex issue behind it but since I couldn't find an answer I just > though to ask: > > Wouldn't it be nice to have color coded objects as output of ls() > statement? Functions of one color and rest with other (at least). So > when I issue an ls() I could visually discern different types of > objects. > > I often find myself opening old files and spending time figuring which > is which. I know this just means I'm not aoranized, but still...color > coding would help.
You haven't mentioned your platform: you would have to be working in a console which supported this, and e.g. the Windows GUI console does not. Once you know the escape codes to change colour, it would be easy to write a listing function which did this. You would almost certainly have to write some C code to find out what the codes are for the current terminal (on a modern system via the terminfo database): the GNU ls (part of coreutils) would provide you example code. So, this is project for a package: are you volunteering? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
