From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21337 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 08:30:35 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Oct 1999 08:30:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 23714 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 1999 08:30:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8401 Received: (qmail 23707 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 08:30:23 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:30:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199910250830.KAA05199@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Alexandre Duret-Lutz's message of 24 Oct 1999 20:32:34 +0100 Subject: Re: PATCH: files attributes not colored by complist Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > This is just a cosmetic patch so that complist > does not color files' attributes (as does GNU ls). I don't use coloured lists, so my opinion shouldn't really count, but I think that we don't need to exactly copy the GNU-ls behaviour if we think that we found a place where a slight incompatibility is better. There already was one incompatibility: if you use a different background colour for some file type, `complist' uses it in for the name and the spaces following it so that the right margins of the columns line up nicely. I *really* prefer it this way -- and your patch changes it. Just consider something wants to use one set of back- and foreground colours for all matches so that completion lists as a whole stand out from the other stuff on the screen. Without your patch this can easily be done and you get a `block' with a different background colour. With your patch you get a ugly looking mixture of the list-background and the normal terminal-background. Personally I don't like this at all. But maybe we can hear other opinions? Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de