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Re: bug coreutils-5.94-1 : ls does not show correct background colors for directories
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Eric Blake <ericblake at comcast dot net>
- Cc: "Mak, Howard" <hmak at vaultus dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:30:45 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: bug coreutils-5.94-1 : ls does not show correct background colors for directories
- References: <031020061733.9023.4411B85A000A0D520000233F22070009530A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Given
> > LS_COLORS='di=01;34'
> > TERM=cygwin
> >
> > Problem is
> >
> > mkdir tmp
> > ls --color=yes
> >
> > will display a weird green background for the directories.
>
> Not a bug. And reading the list archives first would have shown that
> just yesterday, this VERY SAME QUESTION was raised:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00291.html
>
> (Hint - world-writable directories no longer fit in the category
> of "di", but use "ow" or "tw" instead; dircolors added new
> categories to make setting LS_COLORS easier.)
With the number of complaints on the list, I wonder if it would make sense
to roll out a Cygwin-specific patch that sets the default colors for "ow"
and "tw" to the default color for "di"... Just a thought.
Igor
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