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Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors
- From: "lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com" <lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com>
- To: soren_andersen at fastmail dot fm, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:05:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors
- Reply-to: lhall at rfk dot com
Original Message:
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From: Soren A soren_andersen@fastmail.fm
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:15:29 +0000 (UTC)
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors
"Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks@jelks.nu> wrote around 14 Oct 2002
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> Just installed the new cygwin and the old directory listing colors are
> no longer recognized. Now it only distinguishes between normal files
> (red), directories (dark blue), and links (cyan). It used to
> distinguish between the file types too, i.e., .zip, .c, .txt, .jpg were
> all in different colors. Why does the new cygwin not allow this, or
> better, how do I enable it with the new cygwin?
<snip>
The dircolors command in Cygwin should, IMHO, output its database with a
line containing 'TERM cygwin', and the version I use doesn't do that. I
recognize your description of the colors as the default cygwin
`ls --colors' output, that's what it does when no LS_COLORS has been
provided.
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Sounds like an argument for a patch. Care to submit one?
Larry
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