Re: dircolors generates "uknown colorls variable su"

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 1/20/2006 2:38 AM:
>>
>> Thanks, but won't that also silence a legitimate warning about a mistyped
>> value?  I'd rather avoid emitting code that discards all stderr output.
>
> No, my patch does not silence stderr during dircolors, only during the
> eval afterwards (after all, it is a warning from tcsh during the eval, and
> not from the execution of dircolors, that is annoying).  For example, even
> with my patch applied:

Ok.  Granted that dircolors or tcsh needs to be fixed,
I'm reluctant to make such a change to dircolors in order
to work around what I see as overly-strict parsing on tcsh's part.
Why not invest the effort in fixing tcsh to recognize the new
codes, and/or to be more permissive?