Ticket #3375 (closed defect: fixed)
Lower [hardlink]'s precedence
| Reported by: | mooffie | Owned by: | andrew_b |
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| Priority: | trivial | Milestone: | 4.8.27 |
| Component: | mc-config-ini | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | Cc: | onlyjob@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | merged | Votes for changeset: | committed-master |
Description
On my system I noticed that sometimes files (pictures, vids) aren't colored according to their types:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30k9atw&s=8
...as seen here, some 'png' files and one 'flv' aren't colored. It turns out that these files have 2 or more links pointing to them (see the "nlink" column in the screenshot). I don't know why these files have 2 links. It happens to be an NTFS partition. Maybe it's not uncommon there to find such things.
Now, look at filehighlight.ini:
https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/misc/filehighlight.ini
"[hardlink]" comes before "[graph]", which is why (I think) it gets precedence.
So I think we should move the [hardlink] section to the bottom of the file. Why? It demands too much cognitive effort of the user to have colors serve two different purposes (indicating either filesystem-type or application-type). Unless hardlinks are shown in *very* distinctive colors (something no default skin does), common users won't "get" them.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from new to accepted
- Owner set to andrew_b
- Milestone changed from Future Releases to 4.8.27
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by andrew_b
- Branch state changed from no branch to on review
Branch: 3375_hardlink_highlight
changeset:aa8033cae4d50555c1a851e1df1b5d67a7fe25fa
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by andrew_b
- Votes for changeset set to andrew_b
- Branch state changed from on review to approved
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from accepted to testing
- Votes for changeset changed from andrew_b to committed-master
- Resolution set to fixed
- Branch state changed from approved to merged
Merged to master: [1a1c6cc27817b9d37ce8e057e0d594184f635d73].
git log --pretty=oneline 83d496680..1a1c6cc27
comment:7 Changed 3 years ago by onlyjob
- Cc onlyjob@… added
I always thought it was a useful feature - to highlight hardlinks differently...
Now, how can I see if file have any hardlinks or if I just deleted the last hardlink?
Perhaps coloring was inconsistent but I've got accustomed to this bug-o-feature over the years.
Would it be possible to visually mark hardlinked files somehow, so they'd stand out among ordinary files?
First,
I apologize for submitting this ticket twice (or thrice, or frice; gods only know how many times I reloaded that page...). I didn't notice the "Please DON'T create ticket again and again if you get error from nginx!!!" warning on the front page.
(BTW, I remember encountering network problems with this site long ago, so I wonder what era the "Currently" in "Currently we have come problems with our web server" refers to.)
Second,
My ticket (the one I submitted earlier) was marked as dup of #3234 ("filehighlight doesn't work for hardlinks"). It isn't: whether filehighlight for hardlinks works or not doesn't matter: I just want the [hardlink] section to be moved to the bottom in the INI file. (I assume that the order of the sections in that file is the one reflected in mc_fhl_get_color.)