Add "l" as alias for "ls".

[rudfol]

To be more precise, "ls -CF". Same effect.
This is purely for user convenience for those who used different emulators.

[ghost]

You should take a look at #731. This shouldn't be a default.

[zanchey]

In which shells is l defined by default? I can't see it in bash or zsh on my machines (Debian).

[rudfol]

@zanchey The emulator I'm using is the default one packaged with Xubuntu 12.04 which I upgraded to 13.10. It uses bash shell.

@Undeterminant I have looked in to the issue #731 which he expands: "It's arguably "fishy": the user can see the expanded form, it's not hidden in an alias; it's instant and live, similar to completions.."

As you can understand above, he's main point is that it is not hidden. However what I'm submitting here is a simple matter, an added alias "l" which is so simple there aren't anything to be hidden. Therefore there is no need to expand this alias "l" live into its form "ls -CF", which is just plain same as normal "ls". No complexity.

This alias is very convenient to use and I'm certain if other shells don't have it, as @zanchey informed us, this is a massive feature for increased productivity for professional work around terminal.

Faithfully,

[ghost]

The benefit to using the expanded form is so that you can have all of the benefits of tab completions without having to mess around with anything. The default ls is equivalent to -CF anyway because it'll use columns on a TTY and 1-width columns on piping, which is the expected behaviour. Having the override is probably less portable, and not useful to the average person, therefore not worthy of a default.

[rudfol]

I understand that the default ls is equivalent to -CF.
Alias option isn't an override is it? Or am I thinking something different.
118 bytes added to the .../function folder wouldn't stop the portability I believe or can you expand on what you mean by being portable please.
I really found having 'l' alias really really useful, really. :')

sincerely,

[rudfol]

Would it be better to omit the '-CF' option in this file since the normal 'ls' and the 'ls -CF' is the same.

kind regards,

[ghost]

It would be better as an abbreviation instead of a function, so that tab completion works. And no, it's not worth adding to the folder because people might want to remap the l abbreviation to something else (maybe ls -l) and your personal preference is not worth overriding the preference of everyone else.

[rudfol]

Very well.
Now understand the valid reason.

Regards,