GNU bug report logs - #24547
24.4; dired should colour in sockets and pipes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 24547 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>, 24547 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24547: 24.4; dired should colour in sockets and pipes
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:08:23 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> Currently the face name is 'dired-socket', but this doesn't seem right
> since it's used not only for socket, but also for pipe, block and character
> devices.  Is 'dired-special' a better name?  At least the manual
> (info "(coreutils) What information is listed") named them "special file".

`dired-special' sounds like a better name; yes.  (I'm not sure whether
sockets are usually called special files, but the other ones covered by
the face are, I think.)

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