On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:59 AM Rodney W. Grimes <free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > Author: kevans > > Date: Thu May 21 03:50:56 2020 > > New Revision: 361318 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361318 > > > > Log: > > ls: fix a --color regression from r337956 > > > > The regression is in-fact that I flipped the default from never to auto. > > The > > incorrect impression was based on an alias that I failed to notice, > > installed by the Linux distribution that I used for testing compatibility > > here. Users that want the old default should be doing so with a shell > > alias > > as is done elsewhere, rather than making this decision in ls(1). > > > > Many thanks to rgrimes for pointing out the alias that I clearly > > overlooked > > that resulted in this; if you despised colors in your terminal from this, > > consider buying him a beer at the next venue that you see him at. > > Thanks Kyle, but this is likely to get me more rocks than beers :-) >
FWIW- I received a not-insignificant number of valid complaints about the original default change because default color schemes are hard, and continued to receive an insignificant number of complaints as recent as a couple months ago (~2 years after the change?). This is considerably more flack than I expect to receive from other controversial proposals I've made and it was based on a fundamental misunderstanding of coreutils. Thanks, Kyle Evans _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
