martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 6.10-6 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/bin/dircolors > > If I specify a filetype twice in the dircolors file, the resulting > LS_COLORS will have the entry twice: > > lapse:/% echo "EXEC 00\nEXEC 01" | dircolors - > LS_COLORS='ex=00:ex=01:'; > export LS_COLORS > > While /bin/ls works fine with it and prefers the last setting over > previous ones, e.g. zsh's completion system works the other way. > > I realise I could be filing this as a bug against zsh, but that > would be asking zsh to work around a shortcoming in the dircolors > "API". > > Instead, would it be possible to fix dircolors so that it eliminates > earlier entries if the dircolors file overrides entries for a given > file class? > > The rationale is that I need dircolors --print-database output in my > own dircolors file if I don't want to hardcode defaults by hand. If > I do that, I'd prefer to keep customisation separate.
Good idea. If no one volunteers to do this soon I'll put it on the TODO list. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
