FYI, I did some searching about busybox's "ls" and coloring, and it seems like a known controversy/"shortcoming"- excerpted from a 2005 mailing list thread-
> > > I'd like to turn off the color with an environment variable [...] but I can't. ... > i also think that along with this, the default coloring behavior > should change from "auto" to "off". this would make the behavior > symmetric with that of the -F adornments: i.e., only there when > you ask. gnu "ls" uses the "--color" option as well, that's where busybox's came from, so adding support for customizing that in tramp wouldn't be completely irresponsible. As a BSD'er myself, it would be a waste for me, but I'll live. -y On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > [ NOTE: last email I sent you was refused by your email server... ] > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> > wrote: >> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>>>> I searched in the documentation to see which var can be customized in >>>>> order to append '--color=never' to the ls command but I fail to find >>>>> the answer. >>>>> >>>>> Could you give me a pointer ? .... _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list Tramp-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel