Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Andreas Schwab wrote: > Pádraig Brady writes: > >> # quick dir listing with latest files/dirs at the bottom, >> # prettify symlink arrows. >> # using eval to precompute the tput sequences. >> eval " >> l() { >> ls -lrt --color=always \"\...@\" | >> sed 's/ -> / $(tput bold)▪▶$(tput sgr0) /' >

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > # quick dir listing with latest files/dirs at the bottom, > # prettify symlink arrows. > # using eval to precompute the tput sequences. > eval " > l() { > ls -lrt --color=always \"\...@\" | > sed 's/ -> / $(tput bold)▪▶$(tput sgr0) /' FWIW, I find this arrow pretty ug

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Philip Rowlands wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: >> >>> This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html >> This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which >> m

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Svoboda
Pádraig Brady wrote 1276 bytes: > Also some scripts may be depending on the output from `cp -v`, > so I'm not on for changing it. The output is already changed (the neat quotes). And one can use LC_ALL=POSIX to get rid of both.

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: > >> This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html > > This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which > make the discussion diffic

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: > >> This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html > > This list archive has done strange things with character encodings > which make the discussion difficul

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which make the discussion difficult to follow. Something along the

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Erik Auerswald wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: >>> When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in >>> „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than >>> symb

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: > > When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in > > „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than > > symbol, as in ->. Is there any pl

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: > When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in > „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than > symbol, as in ->. Is there any plan to make the arrow also

the unicode arrow

2009-09-06 Thread Michal Svoboda
When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than symbol, as in ->. Is there any plan to make the arrow also neat, using the unicore arrow symbol?