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26.3; eshell: face for directory and symlink the same in terminal

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: ams <at> gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
Cc: 43615 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43615: 26.3; eshell: face for directory and symlink the same in terminal
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:38:35 +0300

> From: ams <at> gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
> CC: 43615 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:25:37 -0400
> 
>    > The color for symlinks and directories is the same on the terminal in
>    > OpenBSD, though the face differs (eshell-ls-symlink which is Cyan
>    > vs. eshell-ls-directory which is SkyBlue).  This is slightly
>    > confusing, since if the symlink points to a file, one might assume
>    > that one can change directories there.
> 
>    On the same terminal, if you start "M-x shell" and invoke 'ls', which
>    colors do you see for these two file types?
> 
> It is a grey color; nor is there a face associated with either of the
> two file types.

Even if you say "ls --color=always"?

And how do the colors look when you invoke 'ls --color' from the
shell?

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