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> You list files hundreds of times a day. Why spend your time squinting at black and white text? I don't spend any time squinting... And personally the bright

> You list files hundreds of times a day. Why spend your time squinting at black and white text? I don't spend any time squinting... And personally the bright colors shown in the example are harder on my eyes than the shades of gray I've selected in my terminal emulator. I also work with a large number of systems, and prefer to work from muscle memory with the tooling that is installed by default 100% of the time. Part of me wishes projects like this would just write patches for the thing they are trying to replace. There is no reason ls couldn't output emoji file types, just patch it in ls and make it a flag people can alias, like --color=auto. To each their own I guess.

cb321 5y ago
Actually, I did at first look into this kind of a modification of GNU ls, but its internal concepts of how to classify files is just not amenable to generalization along the lines of https://github.com/c-blake/lc https://github.com/c-blake/lc . Basically, the patch would be to thoroughly overhaul guts of the command and libraries it uses and be so unclean that starting from scratch is better, even if you wanted to "stay in C". It's not like the patch would be installed 100% of the time anyway, and shell aliases can paper over divergent installations. So, it's 100% fine if none of these features matter to you - to each his own indeed - but I thought your point deserved a reply. (EDIT: also, `lc` is < 1000 lines of pretty tabular Nim code; Nim is a very high productivity language; exa and GNU ls are both effectively like 10x more code, IIRC. But yeah, you do need to have the Nim compiler installed)
treeman79 5y ago
When I wear prism glasses I have to mute the colors to bear black and white otherwise I get weird text hovering. Different colors come forward backwards.

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> You list files hundreds of times a day. Why spend your time squinting at black and white text? I don't spend any time squinting... And personally the bright

by deeblering4 5y ago

cb321 5y ago
Actually, I did at first look into this kind of a modification of GNU ls, but its internal concepts of how to classify files is just not amenable to generalization along the lines of https://github.com/c-blake/lc https://github.com/c-blake/lc . Basically, the patch would be to thoroughly overhaul guts of the command and libraries it uses and be so unclean that starting from scratch is better, even if you wanted to "stay in C". It's not like the patch would be installed 100% of the time anyway, and shell aliases can paper over divergent installations. So, it's 100% fine if none of these features matter to you - to each his own indeed - but I thought your point deserved a reply. (EDIT: also, `lc` is < 1000 lines of pretty tabular Nim code; Nim is a very high productivity language; exa and GNU ls are both effectively like 10x more code, IIRC. But yeah, you do need to have the Nim compiler installed)
treeman79 5y ago
When I wear prism glasses I have to mute the colors to bear black and white otherwise I get weird text hovering. Different colors come forward backwards.