Re: thoughts on NO_COLOR

2022-04-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Pádraig Brady wrote: > I just noticed some de facto treatment of the NO_COLOR env var. > https://no-color.org/ I happened to run across this site myself a few weeks ago. When I saw it I had this immediate feeling of community. Here was someone else who also felt the oppression of endless

[PATCH] doc: describe `dd iseek` as a feature not a change

2022-04-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
* NEWS: Move description from "Changes in behavior" to "New features". --- NEWS | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2041b8a6d..85fd5be12 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -63,9 +63,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS-*-

[PATCH] ls: avoid expensive capability lookup by default

2022-04-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
Lookup of file-based capabilities adds 30% overhead to the common case of ls --color usage. Since the use of file capabilities is very rare, it doesn't make sense to pay this cost in the common case. It's better to use getcap to inspect capabilities, and the following run shows only 8 files

bug#54521: [PATCH] dircolors: colorize backup files with bright black

2022-04-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 23/03/2022 23:53, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 22/03/2022 18:24, Ville Skyttä wrote: Useful as it makes them stand out less than non-backup files. --- src/dircolors.hin | 19 +++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin index