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

[Kamil Dudka]

Hi Pádraig,

On Sunday 07 June 2009 16:35:23 Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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'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?

enclosed is the patch to disable it by default. The patch also renames 
HARDLINK to MULTIHARDLINK and 'hl' to 'mh' (as Joshua proposed and Jim 
acked). It does not import the dir_colors man page yet.

Kamil

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