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RE: ls --color feature request: ordinary files uncoloured


From: Avis, Ed
Subject: RE: ls --color feature request: ordinary files uncoloured
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:11:23 -0000

Jim Meyering wrote:

>>If for some reason my terminal gets into a strange mode where the
>>color of the text is changed and difficult to read, all I need to do
>>is run an 'ls' command, and the colors will be restored to normal.
>
>Ed suggested eliminating the 00-escape sequence around each
>dircolors-NORMAL file.  I expect that his change will not
>affect the independent, term-color-restoring escape sequence
>at the end of `ls --color' output.

I think that if no escape sequences were used during the directory
listing then there's no need to restore anything afterwards.

If you do like the side-effect of ls restoring your terminal, you could
set LS_COLORS so that ordinary files are white.

-- 
Ed Avis <address@hidden>




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