From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:33:26 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Use colorized output with normal ls when GNU ls is not available.
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Use colorized output with normal ls when GNU ls is not available.
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diff --git a/shell/env b/shell/env
index a7f7405..84705b6 100644
--- a/shell/env
+++ b/shell/env
@@ -13,13 +13,29 @@ export EDITOR
 PAGER=less
 export PAGER
 
-# Set colors for ls (and zsh completions). This colors files normal (fi),
+# Set colors for GNU ls (and zsh completions). This colors files normal (fi),
 # directories blue bold (di), symbolic links cyan (ln), named pipes normal
 # (pi), sockets normal (so), block devices normal (bd), character devices
 # normal (cd) and executables bold red (ex).
 # See `dircolors --print-database` for possible colors.
 LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=34;01:ln=36:pi=00:so=00:bd=00:cd=00:ex=31;01'
 export LS_COLORS
+# Set the same colors for non GNU ls.
+LSCOLORS='ExgxxxxxBxxxxxBxBxExEx'
+#         ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+#         | | | | | | | | | | |
+#         | | | | | | | | | | *- directory writable to others, without sticky bit
+#         | | | | | | | | | *--- directory writable to others, with sticky bit
+#         | | | | | | | | *----- executable with setgid bit set
+#         | | | | | | | *------- executable with setuid bit set
+#         | | | | | | *--------- character special
+#         | | | | | *----------- block special
+#         | | | | *------------- executable
+#         | | | *--------------- pipe
+#         | | *----------------- socket
+#         | *------------------- symbolic link
+#         *--------------------- directory
+export LSCOLORS
 
 
 # Sources a configuration file if it exists; loads a fallback .local file if
diff --git a/zsh/rc b/zsh/rc
index 618e7d1..b16a5ca 100644
--- a/zsh/rc
+++ b/zsh/rc
@@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ alias -g G='| grep'
 
 # Improved ls which displays the files in columns (-C), visualises directories,
 # links and other special files (-F) and pages everything through less (L).
+#
+# If available use GNU ls with colorized output. If it isn't available use
+# normal ls which needs CLICOLOR_FORCE so it displays colors when used with a
+# pager.
+ls --color &> /dev/null
+if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
+    alias ls='ls --color'
+else
+    alias ls='CLICOLOR_FORCE=1 ls -G'
+fi
+# Main ls function.
 function ls() {
     command ls -C -F $* L
 }