Re: ls --color feature request: ordinary files uncoloured

[Andreas Schwab]

"Mark Galbraith" <address@hidden> writes:

> Actually, I prefer the current behavior.  If for some reason my terminal
> gets into a strange mode where the color of the text is changed and
> difficult to read, all I need to do is run an 'ls' command, and the
> colors will be restored to normal.

If you put the attribute-restoring escape sequence in the shell prompt
you don't even need to run any command at all.

Eg. in bash:

PS1="...\[$(tput sgr0)\]..."

Andreas.

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