Listings Question About Ping

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 17:35 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 5:30 PM, Craig White wrote:
> >
> > I find it extremely useful to have my attention drawn to the fact that
> > this linked file is broken so the flashing seems entirely useful. The
> > colorization is less interesting to me and very painful if I try to use
> > white on black terminals (so I don't).
> >
> > I think you could probably find more suitable targets for your latent
> > maniacal tendencies.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> 
> Craig:
> 
> So the blinking is for broken links and only broken links? I suppose it 
> makes sense, but on principle blinking anything just seems wrong.
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can't say for certain (and I'm not going to research) but I've been
using Linux for many years and never see blinking names from an ls
command except for broken symbolic links. Blinking/flashing makes sense
in terms of drawing your attention to things that are broken.

Craig


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