GNU bug report logs - #24926
ls-quotes: ls output has been made ugly

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: "L. A. Walsh" <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 24926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>
Subject: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:27:22 -0800


Eric Blake wrote:
> Knowing the pitfalls makes it easier to justify why an output that is
> unambiguous was chosen as the new default over the previous ambiguous
> output; any further changes to the default are now a matter of
> fine-tuning about how much (or how little) decoration we can get away
> with, while still avoiding a regression to the situation of ambiguous
> output.
---
	That's bull!  You don't just randomly change 
output in programs and break compatibility.  If the user
wanted unambiguous, there are already options.
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