Re: "more", "ls -l", and column 80 in shell

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.06.2006 um 11:42 schrieb Tim X:

> I have also noticed there seems to be quite a few systems which have
> the ls --color= option set "oddly" - the gnu version of lis has a
> number of options for preventing colour escape codes being used if the
> output is either a dumb terminal or it is being redirected to some
> other device/file - this makes it easy to pipe ls output into other
> programs and avoid issues from weird escape sequences etc.

I think the ls command in Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is even  
better: it "knows" which terminals can set colours! Until Panther  
(Mac OS X 10.3) I had to prevent the colourising feature, now I  
actually have to turn it on actively! GNU's ls is not that careful --  
and it cannot display UTF-8 characters! GNU ls cannot be recommended.

(ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on) should be OK for modern Emacsen to  
allow the translation of ANSI codes into "SGR control sequences of  
comint output into text-properties" -- I think only the CVS versions  
offer this feature, for stable GNU Emacs 21.4 it was not included.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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