svn commit: r337956 - in head: . bin/ls

[Kyle Evans]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> Author: kevans
>> Date: Fri Aug 17 04:15:51 2018
>> New Revision: 337956
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337956
>>
>> Log:
>>   ls(1): Add --color=when
>>
>>   --color may be set to one of: 'auto', 'always', and 'never'.
>>
>>   'auto' is the default behavior- output colors only if -G or COLORTERM are
>
> Why different than coreutils ls?   Default for coreutils is none.

I guess this was worded poorly and you skipped both the review and
reading the diff... this is still contingent on environment variables
or -G being specified.

>>   set, and only if stdout is a tty.
>>
>>   'always' is a new behavior- output colors always. termcap(5) will be
>>   consulted unless TERM is unset or not a recognized terminal, in which case
>>   ls(1) will fall back to explicitly outputting ANSI escape sequences.
>>
>>   'never' to turn off any environment variable and -G usage.
> Why different than core utils?  Coreutils uses none.

I guess this was worded poorly and you skipped both the review and
reading the diff... this is still contingent on environment variables
or -G being specified.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans