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Typing eza is a pretty horrible three character combination on a qwerty keyboard. One advantage of ls is it’s a lightning fast set of key strokes. I guess you c
by tmountain 2y ago
Typing eza is a pretty horrible three character combination on a qwerty keyboard. One advantage of ls is it’s a lightning fast set of key strokes. I guess you can alias, but that’s kind of weird (compatibility, etc).
- glandium 2y agoThis is where an azerty keyboard shines.
- elendee 2y agothis was my first reaction too
- redxtech 2y ago`command -v eza >/dev/null && alias ls="eza"`
- acupofnope 2y agoCan you elaborate on why aliasing is kind of weird?
- jen20 2y agoI’ve had eza (and formally exa) aliased as ls, ll and lll since around 2015 and never hit a compatibility issue. I also have sl installed to encourage accuracy when running it…
- cafkafk 2y agoI was a former exa user, and the z is next to x on my keyboard, wasn't a huge hassle for me
- F3nd0 2y agoAs a Dvorak user, ‘eza’ seems like an improvement! (‘ls’ on a Dvorak layout is ‘p-’ on QWERTY; both keys on the right little finger.)
- FuckButtons 2y agoYou can alias it to whatever you want though.
- DSMan195276 2y agoYou can, but that's a pain to set up and maintain everywhere. I avoid using aliases for that reason, it just makes me annoyed when I ssh into a machine and it's not there. I'm not sure the meaning behind the name, but maybe they should have picked `eya` instead, that's nice and satisfying rather than the double pinky move :D