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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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
Cc: 24547 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24547: 24.4; dired should colour in sockets and pipes
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:26:23 +0200

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

> With GNU ls --color in a terminal, different colors are used for
>
>     regular files,
>     directories,
>     symlinks,
>     sockets,
>     pipes,
>     (other stuff - dircolors?)
>
> In dired, the first three get different faces,
> but sockets and pipes look like regular files.
>
> I think it's probably easy to fix sockets and pipes,
> because the first character is "s" or "p",
> at least in GNU ls output.

Sounds reasonable.  I've now done this in Emacs 27, but I've used just a
single face for both sockets and pipes.

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