bug#54521: [PATCH] dircolors: colorize backup files with bright black

[Pádraig Brady]

On 23/03/2022 23:53, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 22/03/2022 18:24, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > Useful as it makes them stand out less than non-backup files.
> > ---
> >    src/dircolors.hin | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >    1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin
> > index 673835201..6dc5a2d74 100644
> > --- a/src/dircolors.hin
> > +++ b/src/dircolors.hin
> > @@ -211,5 +211,24 @@ EXEC 01;32
> >    .spx 00;36
> >    .xspf 00;36
> >    
> > +# backup files
> > +*~ 00;90
> > +*# 00;90
> > +.bak 00;90
> > +.old 00;90
> > +.orig 00;90
> > +.part 00;90
> > +.rej 00;90
> > +.swp 00;90
> > +.tmp 00;90
> > +.dpkg-dist 00;90
> > +.dpkg-old 00;90
> > +.ucf-dist 00;90
> > +.ucf-new 00;90
> > +.ucf-old 00;90
> > +.rpmnew 00;90
> > +.rpmorig 00;90
> > +.rpmsave 00;90
> > +
> >    # Subsequent TERM or COLORTERM entries, can be used to add / override
> >    # config specific to those matching environment variables.
>
> I quite like that actually.
> The default coloring works well on both dark and light backgrounds.
> Coloring this class of files does seem useful.
>
> +1 from me anyway.

I've pushed this after some perf testing showing it had negligible perf impact.
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=52aeae2c3

Here is a small example of the output:
https://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/coreutils/ls-backup-colors.html

cheers,
Pádraig