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dircolors request


From: Simeon
Subject: dircolors request
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:28:55 +1300
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1

This isn't so much a bug as a request. The colors that dircolors produces by default are selected for light text on a dark background (e.g while on black). It's quite common (I don't claim universal, but common nevertheless) to use a dark on light scheme as it is easier on the eyes (e.g black on paper-white), and has been for a long time (macs, spark terminals, inverting switches on herc monitors etc).

This request is for a switch on the dircolors utility that would change the light colors like bright green to dark equivalents like forest green. I'm sure this would save thousands of users a lot of stuffing around.

I should also mention that all the documentation on dircolors mentions the system default /etc/DIR_COLORS filem but this doesn't necessarily exist unless you write it (I'm using debian if that helps). I spend several frustrating hours swearing and searching for the thing last week, before finding that the ultimate source of the color set is compiled into the binary. So I request that the man page be amended to mention this vital fact, that no reference book (that I own) or webpage seems to mention anywhere. I had to ask about three different sysadmins before I found one that knew.

Anyway, these are requests, and I accept they're not top priority, but I think they should go in the todo list somewhere.

Regards,
        Simeon.
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