Re: color support for TERM=cygwin

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 3/26/2005 12:16 AM:
> 
> Thanks; I installed the obvious change to src/dircolors.hin.

Any reason the terminal names aren't sorted in any particular order?

> 
> I'm not so sure.  Such users are not casual, and they can look at the
> source.  In fact, I had rather the reverse in mind: dircolors and
> dcgen could be simplified as shown below.

I'm okay with leaving `dircolors -p' with no comments, but it is a
user-visible change from 5.2.1 that probably should have been mentioned in
the NEWS for 5.3.0 (revision 1.3 of dcgen was checked in during July 04).
 This fact adds all the more impetus to improving the info pages to
describe the dircolors input file format, as well as the LS_COLORS format,
rather than referring to a dircolors invocation that no longer carries
helpful hints.  I also think that it is okay for `dircolors --help' to
point to the info pages rather than trying to repeat the input file format
inline (right now it is still pointing to `dircolors -p').

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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