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Re: color support for TERM=cygwin
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: color support for TERM=cygwin |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:02:45 +0100 |
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.