Re: Patch: dircolors, add alacritty

[Michael Stone]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 02:18:53PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Right dircolors will set empty LS_COLORS due to not matching the TERM.
> In that case ls will resort to using its default basic color set
> (which it does because COLORTERM is set).
>
> Adding various terminals to the default list seems not a general solution 
> though.
> I think we might handle this more generally by dircolors supporting
> the COLORTERM env var which most terminals set, including alacritty.

COLORTERM is a lousy solution because it doesn't necessarily get 
preserved through various mechanisms that do make a point of preserving 
TERM. (E.g., ssh) The most pragmatic solution at this point is to 
realize that it's 2021, terminals which people actually use that don't 
support color are pretty few and far between, and just add a --force 
option so users don't have to deal with whether dircolors guesses right.