Re: the `--color' option of `ls' shadows the shortcut evaluation scheme of `&&' and `||'

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's the result I'll push in a day or two:
>
>       ls --color no longer outputs unnecessary escape sequences

BTW, that patch reduces by up to about 60% the size of the output
of "ls -C --color=always" when there are many short-named files,
e.g., as you'd see in an mh-style mailbox dir.