From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22923 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 11:52:05 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Oct 1999 11:52:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 11359 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 1999 11:51:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8410 Received: (qmail 11352 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 11:51:49 -0000 Sender: aduret@mars.l2i To: Sven Wischnowsky Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: files attributes not colored by complist References: <199910250830.KAA05199@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-Attribution: plx From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz Date: 25 Oct 1999 14:50:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: Sven Wischnowsky's message of "Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:30:12 +0200 (MET DST)" Message-ID: <7d904rczwo.fsf@mars.l2i> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0700000000000003 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> "SW" == Sven Wischnowsky writes: [...] SW> Just consider some[one] wants to use one set of SW> back- and foreground colours for all matches so that completion lists SW> as a whole stand out from the other stuff on the screen. Without your SW> patch this can easily be done and you get a `block' with a different SW> background colour. With your patch you get a ugly looking mixture of SW> the list-background and the normal terminal-background. I understand. I submited the patch because I used to do ZLS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS and thought most people would do that (in wich case behaving like GNU ls seems the right thing to do). Maybe I was wrong. [...] >>> "Z" == Zefram writes: [...] Z> In the absence of special background colours, I find the GNU ls style, Z> with only the filename coloured, to be much more pleasant. Z> If backgrounds are used, I see your point; perhaps we should allow Z> the colours for the type characters and spaces to be set Z> separately. This sounds good. And allow to have file type colored differently from the filename. [...] BTW, there is another thing I *do* like in GNU ls, it's its multi-column's output with variable width for columns. This allow to put more files on less lines. Do you think Zsh could do that too ? -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz