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Re: dircolors generates "uknown colorls variable su"
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: dircolors generates "uknown colorls variable su" |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:44:43 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 1/20/2006 2:38 AM:
>>
>> Thanks, but won't that also silence a legitimate warning about a mistyped
>> value? I'd rather avoid emitting code that discards all stderr output.
>
> No, my patch does not silence stderr during dircolors, only during the
> eval afterwards (after all, it is a warning from tcsh during the eval, and
> not from the execution of dircolors, that is annoying). For example, even
> with my patch applied:
Ok. Granted that dircolors or tcsh needs to be fixed,
I'm reluctant to make such a change to dircolors in order
to work around what I see as overly-strict parsing on tcsh's part.
Why not invest the effort in fixing tcsh to recognize the new
codes, and/or to be more permissive?