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 ?
....


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