Re: ls should not color output when --color=auto is used in environment TERM=dumb

[John Cowan]

Micah Cowan scripsit:

> I would expect virtually every application that sends special terminal
> control sequences (such as those used for coloring) to respect the TERM
> variable and relevant terminal databases; it's just good manners.

I agree.  Since the documented behavior of --color is to color the output,
rather than (say) to send particular escape sequences to the output,
failing to notice that the output cannot be colored (given that the
costs of finding that out are low) is indeed a bug, whether documented
or not.

> It seems to me, then, that ls should never colorize in the case that
> LS_COLORS is /set/, but has a null value. 

+1

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