The Default impls for DefaultFormat and LoadFormat were originally called ‘new’, to which Clippy suggested that they be changed. But as these functions change based on what the year is, a function called something other than ‘new’, like ‘load’.
This allows printing directory trees without any files, only
showing the structure.
I haven't decided on a letter for the short option.
Implements #401
Add two new sort options `.name` and `.Name` which with ignore a leading
`.` if present on the file name before sorting according to `name` and
`Name`.
This new sort is convenient if you want to list hidden and unhidden
files sorted together.
Fixes#288, but more-or-less as a side-effect.
The “mi” key in LS_COLORS was meant to be used for a missing link path, but it wasn’t really used like that. There was also a bug where control characters in a broken symlink’s path were assumed to be underlined, because that’s what happened in the default colour scheme, but this assumption doesn’t hold when colours were disabled.
The solution to these was not to introduce another configurable colour code, but to start using _overlays_ to alter a bunch of colours at once. The “mi” code will have to be added back later.
I changed my mind about which way round sorting by “newest” or by “oldest” should actually go. If you’re listing a large directory, you see the last lines of the output first, so these files should be the ones with the largest whatever the sort field is. It’s about sorting *last*, not sorting *first*. Sorting by size wouldn’t say “sorts smallest files first”, it would say “sorts largest files last”. Right?
Also, add a new suggestion that warns against “ls -lt”.
This commit changes the definition of Arg so that it knows about which values it can accept, and can display them in the help text. They were already being shown in the help text, but they were passed in separately, so one argument could show two different sets of options if it wanted. Now, the argument itself knows whether there are suggestions, so it doesn’t have to be passed in separately.
This means we can use it for other things, including listing choices when an option is missed out, without having to repeat the list.
With Misfire::BadArgument now only having two fields, it’s not worth using a constructor function anymore.
TakesValue::Optional introduced which allows for an optional flag with
an optional value (equivalent to getopts' optflagopt mode).
Can be used where a default value for a modifier could exist, but the
user might prefer to override.
Will be used to implement #284, permitting --time to default to "sort by
modification date" for compatibility with GNU/posix ls but keeping
support for exa's previous behavior.
Raised in #243 and #284. exa isn’t able to override the -t option like this, so the least it can do is detect that case (which is going to be an error case anyway) and show a suggestion.
I don’t really see the modified date as the *modified* date, rather just the *date* field, because it’s the date field I refer to like 99.9% of the time. So now it has aliases to match.
Also are included are aliases for the reverse order, because I’d rather write “new” than “the reverse of old”.
It said “(Choices: (choices: this, that, other))” instead of “(choices: this, that, other)”. Also improve the same error elsewhere: options more have ‘settings’ than ‘values’.
This commit adds to the parsing of the LS_COLORS and EXA_COLORS variables so that non-two-letter codes (keys other than things like ‘di’ or ‘ln’ or ‘ex’) will be treated as file name globs, and get used to colour files accordingly.
Fixes#116 for good.
