athityakumar/colorls

Disable tab indentation and backslash after directory name

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#344 opened on Feb 11, 2020

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  • Type of issue :
    • Feature request

I've been trying to port my exact ls config to colorls (I'd like to use colorls mainly because of the --sf option which lists files first). There are a few things that I haven't been able to reproduce:

  1. is there a way to disable the tab (4 spaces) between the left edge and the first column?;
  2. having disabled all the icons, how can I get the corrent number of columns? I disable the icons replacing them with two backslash characters, this gets rid of the icons but now it doesn't use all the columns it could;
  3. is there a way to hide the backslash character after the directory names?

Here's the comparison between my ls and colorls.

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Examine the colorls source code to understand how column indentation, icon placement, and directory trailing backslash are implemented. Look for configuration options or rendering logic that controls these aspects. Then propose changes to make them configurable.
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