Re: Emacs and ls

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "AL" == Alex Lancaster <address@hidden> writes:

AL> I had heard a rumour this was going to be in emacs 20.6, but it's
AL> not there yet.  Does anybody know when FSF was going to
AL> incorporate this code?

That capability is in the Emacs 21 development sources.  (No, I don't
know the release schedule.)

AL> The key is the `auto' keyword.  This means that `ls' is smart
AL> enough to only try using colours if it can (i.e. if the TERM
AL> environment variable is one that supports colour coding) and don't
AL> use them if it doesn't.

"ls --color=auto" should already be a default provided in
~/.bash_login.  If you are re-asserting this, it should still
work, but you don't need to.  `ls' in a M-x shell (as configured by
default) works fine for me.


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