Re: color support for TERM=cygwin

2005-03-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Any reason the terminal names aren't sorted in any particular order? > > I think the "popular" ones are first, then the rest alphabetized. > But I'm guessing. > >> This fact adds all the more impetus to improving

Re: color support for TERM=cygwin

2005-03-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any reason the terminal names aren't sorted in any particular order? I think the "popular" ones are first, then the rest alphabetized. But I'm guessing. > This fact adds all the more impetus to improving the info pages to > describe the dircolors input f

Re: color support for TERM=cygwin

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 3/26/2005 12:16 AM: > > Thanks; I installed the obvious change to src/dircolors.hin. Any reason the terminal names aren't sorted in any particular order? > > I'm not so sure. Such users are not casual, and they can look

Re: color support for TERM=cygwin

2005-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, for those who prefer British spellings, should we be looking >> at supporting colour synonyms (dircolours, LS_COLOURS, ls --colour, >> etc.)? > > No, option and environment variable names are American English. If we > wanted to localize them (I'm dub

Re: color support for TERM=cygwin

2005-03-25 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: > The cygwin terminal supports color, so it would be nice to have this > patch. Thanks; I installed the obvious change to src/dircolors.hin. > Also, I think src/dcgen should not strip comments from > src/dircolors.hin, so that a user typing `dircolors -p' g

color support for TERM=cygwin

2005-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
The cygwin terminal supports color, so it would be nice to have this patch. Also, I think src/dcgen should not strip comments from src/dircolors.hin, so that a user typing `dircolors -p' gets the comments as well as the default settings. For example, `info coreutils dircolors' refers to runnin