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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:04:35 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org,  svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r337826 - stable/11/bin/ls
Message-ID:  <CAPyFy2CXe5uUu_OwsUiS2xK61bK9ccFYOyD=p6v9=Do3yGWwqw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201808150141.w7F1ft69045150@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201808150129.w7F1T23r064553@repo.freebsd.org> <201808150141.w7F1ft69045150@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On 14 August 2018 at 21:41, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>> Author: kevans
>> Date: Wed Aug 15 01:29:02 2018
>> New Revision: 337826
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337826
>>
>> Log:
>>   MFC r337506: ls(1): Enable colors with COLORTERM is set in the environment
>>
>>   COLORTERM is the de facto standard, while CLICOLOR is generally specific to
>>   FreeBSD and ls(1).
>
> I have already seen one "Who enabled %&*@(#$@) colored ls output in 12?"
> Seems that the defaults for xfce terminal is to have COLORTERM.

If xfce's default is to request colour via the de-facto environment
variable then we should generally honour it -- the answer to the
%&*@(#$@) question is "you did, via your terminal's default."



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