From efa7c7b7ff72953368dfaba979e3014826bf1837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hong Xu Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:15:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] set better default colors for GNU ls instead of none. GNU coreutils ship a color setup command by default which can be used to set a good default color theme for ls: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dircolors-invocation.html --- lib/theme-and-appearance.zsh | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/theme-and-appearance.zsh b/lib/theme-and-appearance.zsh index 5c5bb0e6..585f872e 100644 --- a/lib/theme-and-appearance.zsh +++ b/lib/theme-and-appearance.zsh @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export LSCOLORS="Gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad" # Enable ls colors if [ "$DISABLE_LS_COLORS" != "true" ] then - # Find the option for using colors in ls, depending on the version: Linux or BSD + # Find the option for using colors in ls, depending on the version: GNU or BSD if [[ "$(uname -s)" == "NetBSD" ]]; then # On NetBSD, test if "gls" (GNU ls) is installed (this one supports colors); # otherwise, leave ls as is, because NetBSD's ls doesn't support -G @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ then gls --color -d . &>/dev/null 2>&1 && alias ls='gls --color=tty' colorls -G -d . &>/dev/null 2>&1 && alias ls='colorls -G' else + # For GNU ls, we use the default ls color theme. They can later be overwritten by themes. + type dircolors >/dev/null 2>&1 && eval "$(dircolors)" ls --color -d . &>/dev/null 2>&1 && alias ls='ls --color=tty' || alias ls='ls -G' fi fi