From: Don Davies <djdavies@home.com>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Couple of cosmetic thingies...
Date: Tue Jul 17 19:27:03 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B54E5F7.F303F46E@home.com> (raw)
Hi, devs
I was reminded of this whilst reading over the newly posted Desktop Guide.
Great work by the way, I enjoyed reading it.
>From /etc/profile:
#eval `dircolors -b`
#commented out because it causes problems with tcsh
Why not just change it to:
eval `dircolors`
...which causes dircolors to act properly, based on $SHELL. :-)
This makes the default setup more colorful... archives and image files
come to mind. Is there interest in providing a DIR_COLORS file?
This could extend things even further.
Another nugget I was thinking of... Gentoo doesn't currently have a
lesspipe.sh script. If you're not familiar with it, this lets you view
compressed archives and such using less. See:
http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html
Slackware has a simpler implementation, and Im sure other Linux vendors
provide one.. probably Debian. But anyway, its incredibly useful.. If there
is interest, I could look at making it work with most since it is the default
pager. Any interest in this?
Cheers
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2001-07-17 19:27 Don Davies [this message]
2001-07-17 23:16 ` [gentoo-dev] Couple of cosmetic thingies Daniel Robbins
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