With the following change, ls is looking for a environment variable named
"LS_WITH_COLOR" to know if by default it should do coloring.
That way in my .zshrc I can do export LS_WITH_COLOR=tty
and ls will do color for me.
The man page should be updated accordingly.
Thanks,
- jfv
localhost% diff ls.new.c fileutils-4.0/src/ls.c
881,903d880
<
< if (p = getenv ("LS_WITH_COLOR"))
< {
< i = argmatch (p, color_args);
< if (i > 0)
< {
< i = color_types[i];
< }
< else {
< i = color_never;
< }
<
< print_with_color = i;
<
< if (print_with_color)
< {
< /* Don't use TAB characters in output. Some terminal
< emulators can't handle the combination of tabs and
< color codes on the same line. */
< tabsize = 0;
< }
< }
<
