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Works pretty good! I really like the symbolic-link-preview. But I think it would be better when you just add -l when you enter things like -h, -T, -b, ... or al

• cytzol 12y ago
  Thanks! Years ago I wrote a wrapper for ls that just added colours and did highlighting - but not only was it much slower, I couldn't do things like preview a symlink's path because that information wasn't available in ls's output. So exa was born. And as for automatically adding --long when you use --tree or similar: this is something I've hummed and haahed about, and I'm still not confident that I've done it the best way, so I'm open to suggestions here. It seems that most tools just seem to ignore it if you pass in two conflicting options, or redundant options, and personally I'd much rather have the user always give correct behaviour than potentially get it wrong without knowing. But I'll just have to see how people end up using it.