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This looks really, REALLY cool.

But as someone who lives in the terminal, it's not something I would use at all. To me, the fancy fontawesome glyphs PLUS the colors are information overload [1]. It really feels like overkill. I'm not trying to discourage anyone (including the author) from writing these things, and clearly the author is a very good programmer.

If it was an exercise in making something beautiful in the terminal, then the author succeeded in this endeavor. Making a good looking, consistent terminal UI is ridiculously difficult, and each column is pretty and formatted. This program feels like it has had a lot of TLC. Honestly, I hope the author continues to make cool programs in the terminal; they clearly have a knack for it :)

As a minor aside, maybe consider changing the executable name from `lc` to something else; it conflicts with the `lc` executable for Mono (at least on Arch[2], and Ubuntu[3]). But that's just a minor nitpick.

[1] this is my opinion, I want to make this as clear as possible

[2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/mono/files/

[3] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/lc.1.html



Acknowledged. The executable has been renamed to `colorls`, which can optionally be aliased in the shell configuration file. :-)


colorls is already in use, at least on OpenBSD it's a package that provides colorized output for ls (though not to the extent of this effort).


This is perfect for someone like my who's entire terminal existence is comprise of avoiding user the Finder as much as humanly possible.




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