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[John Harres]

I have just started using Linux, which comes with the color gnu ls.  This is
all quite nice, but when I do completions under zsh, they are just the plain
old black and white.  Are there any plans to add the color to zsh?

John

Re: zsh and color

[Richard Coleman]

> I have just started using Linux, which comes with the color gnu ls.
> This is all quite nice, but when I do completions under zsh, they
> are just the plain old black and white.  Are there any plans to add
> the color to zsh?

I don't forsee this happening any time soon.  There are too many other
things still in the pipeline that need to be done.  Also, I don't like
the idea of adding features to the baseline that would only be used by
people on a particular OS.

But if someone creates a patch, I could always put it in a Contrib
directory for people that are interested.

Richard Coleman
zsh@math.gatech.edu

Re: zsh and color

[Andrew Cosgriff]

Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> wrote:

>I don't forsee this happening any time soon.  There are too many other
>things still in the pipeline that need to be done.  Also, I don't like
>the idea of adding features to the baseline that would only be used by
>people on a particular OS.

It's not actually OS-specific - the patch to gnu's ls uses ANSI escape 
sequences to set the colors - you just need an xterm that's been patched to 
support color (which you can get from ftp.x.org - i'm currently using one 
that's had the scroll bar put on the right hand side, too).

That said, I can't say i'm hanging out for zsh to support this when listing 
completable files, even though I love my color ls :)

Enjoy,
 Andrew
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Re: zsh and color

[Dave Sainty]

Andrew Cosgriff writes:

> Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> >I don't forsee this happening any time soon.  There are too many other
> >things still in the pipeline that need to be done.  Also, I don't like
> >the idea of adding features to the baseline that would only be used by
> >people on a particular OS.
> 
> It's not actually OS-specific - the patch to gnu's ls uses ANSI escape 
> sequences to set the colors

Colour escape sequences are also avaliable from termcap/terminfo
databases, although they are rarely documented even for colour capable
terminal types. So colour can be added quite generically, with no
special hacks (setopt use_ansi_colour, although you might want a
setopt use_colour). And somehow you need to specify what colours mean
what.

Personally, I think this can be implemented best in compctl, e.g. If
you complete with the following rule, colour the completed word to
colour x.

Doesn't sound too hard either....