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

[Kamil Dudka]

On Sunday 07 of June 2009 17:30:28 Jim Meyering wrote:
> 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#00
> >>>287 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.

What do you think about the rename of HARDLINK to MULTIHARDLINK (as Joshua 
proposed)? And then maybe 'hl' to 'mh' accordingly? It makes sense, however 
it would break the configuration already done by users.

Kamil