Re: color support for TERM=cygwin

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Also, for those who prefer British spellings, should we be looking
>> at supporting colour synonyms (dircolours, LS_COLOURS, ls --colour,
>> etc.)?
>
> No, option and environment variable names are American English.  If we
> wanted to localize them (I'm dubious), we should support French,
> Chinese, etc., not just British English.

I agree.  The original patch that added this feature also had British
spellings, and I removed them, for just those reasons.

> Jim, what do you think?  Is the following minor patch worth the
> hassle?  It does save a couple of hundred bytes in the dircolors
> executable, but its main advantage to my mind is that it shortens the
> code by about 30 lines and removes some casts.

Sure.  That's an improvement.  Thanks, Paul.

In any case, Eric, you're right.  There's a marked
lack of documentation in this area.  Any patches to
remedy that would be welcome.  I applied your tiny
ls --help change.  I too prefer to put documentation
in --help output and/or coreutils.texi.