On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 10:46, Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:05:04AM -0800, Alistair Crooks wrote: > > [...] > > > > (my motivation is that my eyes are not getting any better, > > nor do mine > > > and i need the > > visual cues that coloring gives me. If anyone doubts it would work for > > them, > > Actually, colorized texts do things worse for me, because by highlingting > some thing it prevents me from seeing other important things. > Of course, but sane highlighting of things, rather than explosions in a paint factory like some syntax coloring schemes I've seen in editors, is the goal. In that way, your eyes are drawn to things that matter. In the colored ls script I posted, normal, everyday regular files are left untouched by colouring. Anything executable is in red (none of that straining to see a '*' on the end) > > I'd like to ask you how your mono tv is doing, and ask why the > > warning lights on your car are so bright?) > > The point is that the warning lights are usually off. > > Indeed. And if you're not alarmed when they're on, that's a problem.
