Hello On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:28 PM, yary <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI, I did some searching about busybox's "ls" and coloring, and it > seems like a known controversy/"shortcoming"- excerpted from a 2005 > mailing list thread- > > > > > I'd like to turn off the color with an environment variable > [...] but I can't. > ... > > i also think that along with this, the default coloring behavior > > should change from "auto" to "off". this would make the behavior > > symmetric with that of the -F adornments: i.e., only there when > > you ask.
Well, making the busybox version output colorized by default sounds very strange for a tool which targets small embedded systems. > > gnu "ls" uses the "--color" option as well, that's where busybox's > came from, so adding support for customizing that in tramp wouldn't be > completely irresponsible. As a BSD'er myself, it would be a waste for > me, but I'll live. > Well if Tramp could figure out if '--color' is supported (that doesn't sound impossible), it would be better to let it sort this and let the user alone. -- Francis _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
