Re: Not sure how to best reply re: dir_colors situation

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> On Saturday 06 of June 2009 16:30:05 Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> Kamil Dudka wrote:
>>>> I think we should improve documentation a bit. It is not only about hard
>>>> links. Some people may also want to disable file capabilities
>>>> highlighting, etc. Pádraig, what do you think?
>>> Well as discussed previously I'm not fond of this feature at all:
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/threads.html#00287
>>> TBH, the number of hardlinks has it's own column that one can quickly scan.
>>> The only argument I've seen for changing the color is "it would help".
>>> So I'd be happy to turn off this completely, or at least not enable it by
>>> default.
>>
>> If this is what users want, then fine by me. Let's make the final decision
>> if "turn off completely", or "not enable by default". I'll prepare the patch
>> for review.
>
> Thanks Kamil for following this up.
>
> Turn off completely is my vote, as hardlinks have their own column.
> I polled my local LUG with a non leading question and
> nobody came up with a reason for coloring hardlinks.
>
> Eric voted for "not enable by default".
>
> Jim checked the functionality in originally.
>
> So I guess the middle ground is best of "not enable by default",
> though that will require adding documentation for the option.

That sounds fine.

> That's probably best to add in the dir_colors man page which
> is part of the linux man pages collection.
> Hmm, would this page be better located in coreutils?

Much of that would be nice to add.
Other parts are not applicable.  i.e.,
neither /etc/DIR_COLORS nor ~/.dir_colors is honored.