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Re: Would a patch adding color to cat(1) be accepted?
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Leslie S Satenstein |
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Re: Would a patch adding color to cat(1) be accepted? |
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Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:03:42 +0000 (UTC) |
My RESPONSE
KISS
Regards
Leslie
Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada
From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
To: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>; Eric Pruitt <address@hidden>;
address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: Would a patch adding color to cat(1) be accepted?
On 10/10/2017 03:43 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> This idea has some merit, though I'd prefer not to have
> cat needing to deal with CAT_COLORS etc.
I also like the idea, but detest the environment variable. When we
recently added coloring to 'diff' (see diffutils 3.4), we chose --color
to turn things on, but --palette to specify which colors to use rather
than an environment variable.
In fact, if we want to add 'cat --palette', it might be nice to retrofit
'ls --color --palette' where the command line takes precedence over the
environment variable LS_COLORS.
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