[OT] Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote:

> Igor,
>
> I don't think you understand.  Asking for a patch is supposed to kill
> a thread.  You're not actually supposed to do anything as a result.  It's
> just our code word on this list for "this discussion is over".  Sorry you
> didn't understand that. ;-)

Oops, I guess I didn't acquire the mean streak of a hardcore cygwin
developer yet... :-D
	Igor

> In all seriousness (and I *was* joking with the above), thanks for taking
> the time to submit this patch! :-)
>
> Larry
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:08:02 -0400 (EDT)
> To: lhall@rfk.com, soren_andersen@fastmail.fm, cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote:
>
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: Soren A soren_andersen@fastmail.fm
> > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:15:29 +0000 (UTC)
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > The dircolors command in Cygwin should, IMHO, output its database with a
> > line containing 'TERM cygwin', and the version I use doesn't do that. I
> > recognize your description of the colors as the default cygwin
> > `ls --colors' output, that's what it does when no LS_COLORS has been
> > provided.
> >
> > -----------------
> >
> > Sounds like an argument for a patch.  Care to submit one?
> >
> > Larry
>
> I do (attached). :-D
> 	Igor
>
> ChangeLog:
> 2002-10-16  Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
>
> 	* dircolors.h (G_line): Add "TERM=cygwin".
> 	(G_line_length): Adjust accordingly.

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