Listings Question About Ping

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/22/2011 04:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> do colors hurt you?
> what is so different in understanding a hdnaful of colors?
>

If I want that info, I can always use ls -l; if I don't use that, it 
means that I don't care or don't need it.

> what is so different to understand a blinking red link is borken and
> why do you think this is not helpful?
>

B0rk?  How.  Does the pretty light show tell you what's w0rng?

> "somebody like me who has no need to know" sounds not smart to say it polite

I don't work with color codes or even, most of the time, the assigned 
names.  If I'm working in a terminal, I expect to learn things by 
reading words and/or numbers, not by looking at arbitrary colors.  If 
you like color in your directory listings, by all means use it.  I 
don't, and I've found a simple way to get rid of it.  In fact, I'd 
rather that having the color there weren't the default, because it's 
just another case of somebody assuming that everybody likes the same 
thing that he does.  Remember, your way isn't the only way, and neither 
is mine.