[finnix] Requests

[Bradlee Landis]

Leonid,

I've seen color in the bash prompt in the default program, so I don't
see why it would be a big deal to have color. IMO it's more efficient
to have a color difference in files, directories, executables, and so
on.

Another way to do the ll shortcut would be to create a short script,
so it would not require pre-loading in the .bashrc:
---
#!/bin/bash
ls -l  [Arguments 1+ (Not sure how to do that off the top of my head)]
---

It's just my thoughts on how to make it a little bit more useful. I
may end up rolling my own version when I get the chance, but it's so
much easier if it's the default :).

-Brad

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Leonid Chaichenets
<chaichenets at int.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Brad,
>
> > This is a great piece of software by the way. There's just a few
> > things I'd like to request, having to do with the default bashrc.
> >
> > 1. Add ll as a command. Use "alias ll='ls -l'"
> > 2. Use colors with ls. (alias ls="ls --color"). "ls --color" works,
> > but color ls is standard among distro's.
> >
> > I'm sure there are other good defaults, but those are just some that I
> > would appreciate.
>
> I would not agree with such defaults. IMHO Finnix should run on minimal
> hardware and color terminals are clearly *not* minimal. Of course one
> could add a check to .bashrc whether the terminal supports color output
> and activate "ls --color" in that case only. This however, would make
> FINNIX bigger, slower (bash scripts tend to be rather slow) and more
> complicated.
>
> If you really wish to have color output from ls, you can burn your own
> version of FINNIX with modified /root/.bashrc quite easily (in fact you
> can customize any config file that way). The procedure is described
> here:
>
> http://www.finnix.org/Overlays
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Leo.
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