Make trailing directory backslash optional

[niallpaterson]

Description

I'd like trailing directory backslashes to be optional. I've done it manually on my local machine, and IMO it looks cleaner (esp when listing a directory with many subdirectories).

It looks like:

At the moment a space is conjoined to the end of file paths and a slash is conjoined to directory paths. I was thinking a flag could be used to make them uniform, or something similar.

This is strictly speaking a duplicate, since it's been asked for in the cited issue. I'm not fussed about the other elements of that request, though, just the backslashes.

I'd be happy to give it a go if deemed valuable.

• Relevant Issues : #344
• Relevant PRs : (none)
• Type of issue :
  • [ ] Installation
  • [ ] Font-related
  • [x] Feature request
  • [ ] Bug in existing feature
  • [ ] Developer mode : Code quality / Tests / Documentation

[t-mangoe]

As a test, I added the option --trailing-backslash to hide trailing directory backslash. Is this like what you want to do?

[niallpaterson]

Yeah that's the idea! Nice one! 👍

[avdv]

GNU ls (and scalals :smile:) has these options:

  --indicator-style STYLE  append indicator with style WORD to entry names: none (default), slash (-p), file-type (--file-type), classify (-F)
  -p, --indicator-style=slash
                           append / indicator to directories

colorls should support these too, but probably use slash as the default for backward compat

[t-mangoe]

colorls should support these too, but probably use slash as the default for backward compat

I think so, too. I'm thinking of adding --indicator-style option. Unlike the original ls command, the default value will be not none, but slash.

[t-mangoe]

I added --indicator-style option. How is this? Trailing directory backslash is hidden , only when none is set to --indicator-style option.

[niallpaterson]

Yeah perfect @t-mangoe! Thanks a bunch ❤️

[t-mangoe]

Thank you for good comment!! I'm thinking of adding tests for this option, --indicator-style, then sending pull request.

Maybe, it may take time for me to do this. I'm happy if you wait patiently.

[t-mangoe]

I sent a pull request about this issue.