On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:11 pm, Paul Moore wrote: > On 6 October 2017 at 12:42, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Generally, you should not have to worry about the behaviour of a >> program being drastically different if you append "| cat" to the >> command line. Which means you don't want TOO much difference between >> interactive mode and non-interactive mode, which in turn limits the >> extent of these changes to the defaults. It wants to be small changes >> only. Everything else should be controlled with options, not magic. > > Yep. My real beef with ls is multi-column vs single-column. > Paul
You don't think multiple columns in interactive mode is useful? I'm surprised, because I find it invaluable. I would hate for `ls` to default to printing everything in one long column. I suppose I could define an alias, but then every time I'm on a different computer or running as a different user, I'd end up with the annoying default single column again. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
