[gentoo-dev] Couple of cosmetic thingies...

[gentoo-dev] Couple of cosmetic thingies...

[Don Davies]

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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Couple of cosmetic thingies...

[Daniel Robbins]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:27:19PM -0400, Don Davies wrote:

> Why not just change it to:
> eval `dircolors`
> 
> ...which causes dircolors to act properly, based on $SHELL. :-)

OK, fixed on CVS.  Thanks.

> 
> 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.

Yes, a DIR_COLORS file could be a nice thing.  Wanna work on one?

> 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?

Yes, I'm interested.  Although I imagine that lesspipe.sh would have tons of 
dependencies, so we would include it as an optional ebuild rather than making
it part of the less ebuild proper.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.