svn commit: r337826 - stable/11/bin/ls

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 15 16:04:57 UTC 2018


On 14 August 2018 at 21:41, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>> Author: kevans
>> Date: Wed Aug 15 01:29:02 2018
>> New Revision: 337826
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337826
>>
>> Log:
>>   MFC r337506: ls(1): Enable colors with COLORTERM is set in the environment
>>
>>   COLORTERM is the de facto standard, while CLICOLOR is generally specific to
>>   FreeBSD and ls(1).
>
> I have already seen one "Who enabled %&*@(#$@) colored ls output in 12?"
> Seems that the defaults for xfce terminal is to have COLORTERM.

If xfce's default is to request colour via the de-facto environment
variable then we should generally honour it -- the answer to the
%&*@(#$@) question is "you did, via your terminal's default."


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