On 01/28/2017 10:13 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
This is already a problem
Of course. All I am saying is that we should not make it worse.
you skirted the issue of using system-wide and per-user
config files which might also be used for similar purpose.
That's even worse. Coreutils doesn't do that now, thank goodness.
How can I send ls's default output through a filter
and have it be the same as to a TTY?
'ls -C'.
you didn't mention how the output would be re-encoded for a user's
tab settings on output
That could be the job of 'expand'. The user's tab settings can be
specified as arguments to 'expand'. If 'expand' doesn't have the desired
functionality now, perhaps we should improve 'expand'. But we should not
be modifying every program to do expansion; just 'expand'. That's the
software tools design philosophy.
