Re: OT: tcsh and LS_COLORS (was: Problems with 'dircolors')

2006-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 12:41, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > >Oh, by the way, if you use tcsh, be aware that it also uses the LS_COLORS > >environment variable internally, but that it does not understand quite as > >many options as ls does and gripes about what it doesn't understand, which > >is w

OT: tcsh and LS_COLORS (was: Problems with 'dircolors')

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Eric Blake wrote: Oh, by the way, if you use tcsh, be aware that it also uses the LS_COLORS environment variable internally, but that it does not understand quite as many options as ls does and gripes about what it doesn't understand, which is why I had to patch the cygwin version of LS_COLORS to

Re: Problems with 'dircolors'

2006-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Long, Phillip GOSS on 10/11/2006 3:56 PM: > Mea culpa; I dropped the ball. > > Try putting this line immediately after the `eval' line: > export LS_COLORS Useless advice. Have you looked at the output of dircolors? It already inc

Re: Problems with 'dircolors'

2006-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com ^ Phil, please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU (reformatted accordingly) and please http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR (munged raw addr

RE: Problems with 'dircolors'

2006-10-11 Thread Long, Phillip GOSS
-Original Message- From: Ricardo Cardoso Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:47 PM To: cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: Problems with 'dircolors' Thanx in advance for the provided solution Philip, but I just can't get it to work. You said: `dircolors' comes w

Re: Problems with 'dircolors'

2006-10-11 Thread Ricardo Cardoso
Thanx in advance for the provided solution Philip, but I just can't get it to work. You said: `dircolors' comes with its own built-in colorization scheme; that's what U get when U type `dircolors --print-database.' If U want to _customize_ your colorization scheme, dump the database to a file, l

RE: Problems with 'dircolors'

2006-10-11 Thread Long, Phillip GOSS
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Cardoso Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:47 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Problems with 'dircolors' Hi all, Can someone explain me how dircolors work? I don't understand the concept of the e

Problems with 'dircolors'

2006-10-11 Thread Ricardo Cardoso
Hi all, Can someone explain me how dircolors work? I don't understand the concept of the environment variable (in this case - i think - LS_COLORS) and when i try 'set LS_COLORS --COLOR' it does nothing at all. I've tried to create a file (something.txt) with the options from ' dircolors --print-d