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Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

okdana wrote: post #280
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #172

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Nope - it's pretty unreadable in iterm2 for me - http://i.imgur.com/bKQwIdJ.jpg Shame, the idea is pretty neat. If you can solve that issue, OP, I'd love to give it a proper try.

The question i have is why do users configure their terminals to use colours that are unreadable to them? If your blue doesn't look right on your dark background, why are you using that blue? If your yellow doesn't look right on your light background, why are you using that yellow? I mean i get how this can be a problem with hard-coded arbitrary values — you can't ever guarantee that e.g. #ff6600 will go with anyone'…

Because those colours never show up. I've never had a problem with readability till now.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by Cockbrand »

I really dig the very useful output, but I'd also muchly appreciate an `ls` compatibility mode. Thus, one could put something like `alias ls='axa --compat'` into .profile and wouldn't have to re-train their muscle memory. F.e., I'm personally using `ls -altr` very often, and `axa -altr` will yield me an error.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by weavie »

general_pizza wrote: post #17

This is heavily influenced by personal taste, but I don't understand the value of having so many elements of the output colorized. File type seems a useful case, everything else in the output of `exa -l` just looks distracting to me. Just my 2 cents.

I sometimes use lolcat, just because I like colour. I just find it helps cheer up a little bit. I guess it is just personal preference..

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by vostok »

SmirkingRevenge wrote: post #269
userbinator wrote: post #244

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Wow, the comments in this thread are quite harsh. I wonder if a lot of that has to do with how it's being "marketed" --- it might just be me, but whenever I see "modern" being used to describe something, it evokes the negative connotations of being trendy, fashionable, boring, vapid, fleeting, style-over-substance that's all too common with software today (Windows' "modern UI/Metro" being one of the first examples to…

Maybe. Whether the term "modern" was used or not, my hunch is that the response would be the same, for it is forbidden for one to deign to make these kinds of changes to fundamental Unix commands, and is tantamount to a kind of heresy (never mind that GNU implementations did this all the time wrt. original Unix implementations). Religion... never cared for it. Re-invent the whole crappy (though still less crappy than…

Of course you hear the same complaints about GNU Coreutils. In general complaining about GNU-isms and GNU bloat is a time-honored tradition

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by dingaling »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #150
arkitaip wrote: post #36

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The more design elements you add - colors, type, graphics etc - the more distracting the design get and the more conflict there is between the design elements. By colorizing everything here, nothing is important anymore. It's just poor usability and design.

I haven't used it yet, but the colored screenshots look way more usable than standard ls. Personally I don't think it id conflicting and confusing at all.

The screenshots also show that the color palette is designed solely for black-background terminals. It will be useless on white or grey, perhaps passable on blue.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by SSLy »

bipson wrote: post #327
unkown-unknowns wrote: post #317

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> because no-one will be removing /bin/ls with exa installed. Why not? I would.

Yeah, that's the thing: built in gnu tools might be used by other tools/scripts/etc. - if you're ls isn't there or delivers unexpected output, they will fail miserably or cause havoc

s/you're/your/

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by ozzmotik »

LASR wrote: post #248
cytzol wrote: post #116

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(author here) You know what's funny? Every time I have to use ls, I'm so used to seeing the colours that I have so much trouble finding anything. Which column in the permissions is group-read? I can just scan for the green one. Which file in the listing am I supposed to be looking at? I just look for the one with the yellow underline. Colours have familiarity to me in a way that letters and words do not -- if I expec…

Ignore what they all said. It's proven that adding 3 dimensions of color means the information entropy is at least trippled. If you think about the terminal as a computer interface, then it's pretty obvious that we're bandwidth limited by how much information you can fit onto the page. Any amount of improvement in that bandwidth are certainly welcome changes. Niceties like having color-coded file sizes and filetypes…

ow my eye sockets hurt! I always love when I get punished for something of a genetic and physical nature that I had absolutely no control over whatsoever!

but in all fairness, other than what you had to say about colorblind people, I more or less agree with your other words and claims. but seriously: i didn't choose to be colorblind and I honestly do hate it sometimes.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by Dowwie »

This is great. I'm switching to exa!

I had high hopes with this command but found the git features missing: exa -l --git --time-style=long-iso -T

Nonetheless, this displays

Hopefully, the author finds this worth the time to support..

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by tym0 »

I've been using k [1] to get pretty much the same functionalities but, being written in zsh, it's terribly slow. Your program looks nice but I would love to have an output closer to k in term of colour [2], at the moment it feels way to noisy to me.

[1] https://github.com/supercrabtree/k

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/supercrabtree/k/gh-pages/f...

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