lc

I notice prior HN comments of yours mention the physical design of the NeXT cube. I cannot say it will make you not hate software, but you still might appreciate that another alternative ls, https://github.com/c-blake/lc, both re-thinks/breaks more radically with ls-tradition and adapts well to something very similar to a terminal variant of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns used in the NeXT file tree graphical browser/navigator via simple shell process substitution composition. E.g., a 3-level scenario on an 80-column looks like: paste <(lc -1m25 ../..) <(lc -1m25 ..) <(lc -1m25 .) Some shell script that uses $((COLUMNS)) arithmetic to do 2 or 4 or whatever terminal width is a pretty simple exercise for the reader and one might want to pipe to less.

If you run `dircolors --print-database|less` you will see that GNU ls only highlights/colors the path/filenames according to a simplistic scheme where a file can only resolve to one type even though on many terminals today "foreground overlays background overlays bold/italic/etc". (https://github.com/c-blake/lc#vector-typemulti-dimensionalit... has a more advanced idea.) This tool by triyanox -- just from the screen shot if you click through -- will also colorize permission masks and sizes, dates, user & group.

Take a look at lc (but not the terminal screenshots! ;)): https://github.com/c-blake/lc lc is a highly configurable "multi-dimensional"[1] file lister written in Nim focused on flexibility and configurability. Key features: - Multi-level sorting by combinations of attributes like size, time, and file type, with user-defined precedence - Configurable file kind sorting order - Value-dependent coloring for file attributes such as timestamps, permissions, or sizes. - Abbreviations: Automatically shorten filenames, user/group names or symlink targets. - File type classification: Integrates libmagic for file type inspection. - Hyperlink support - Per-directory configs: custom behaviors for specific directories using local tweak files (.lc). - Lightweight (~900 lines of code) with only author's CLI library "cligen" and Nim's stdlib as dependenc

https://github.com/c-blake/lc shows all files, including hidden files (starting with dot aka dot files) by default, suppressible in output with -xdot or a shell/internal alias to the same effect. It helps to start with a more extensible/less built-in idea of "file type". "odd permissions" are another type that might interest someone, for example, such as "setgid but not group-executable" or "writable but not readable" or etc. Yes, I know one can also use `find` or etc. for that, but there's no crime in there being >1 way to see things and, for some people, colors can make things really stand out - as can sort order which is another more color-blind possibility in `lc` as well as the simple filter-or-not of ls -a/-A.

lc: https://github.com/c-blake/lc (in Nim).

It may or may not bother people less|more [1], but "post-modern" gets some github love: https://github.com/search?q=%2Fpost-modern&type=repositories... including a command I use hundreds of times per day written in Nim: https://github.com/c-blake/lc But it looks like someone just flagged this article or some such as it went from rank 16 to 116 in like 1 minute. So, oh well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism