Re: the unicode arrow

[Pádraig Brady]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> # quick dir listing with latest files/dirs at the bottom,
>> # prettify symlink arrows.
>> # using eval to precompute the tput sequences.
>> eval "
>> l() {
>>   ls -lrt --color=always \"address@hidden" |
>>   sed 's/ -> / $(tput bold)▪▶$(tput sgr0) /'
> 
> FWIW, I find this arrow pretty ugly.  Why not →?

Because I can't see it with my font (Bitstream Vera Mono 10).
Feel free to change it in your copy of l() :)

cheers,
Pádraig.