adjust color scale to use it fully

[dancek]

I implemented automatic color scale adjustment so that the color scale is fully used every time. This is the default behavior in my version, but you can disable it using the -G or --static-colors parameters.

Examples

k

k -G

[dancek]

I think my version is much better for file sizes, as different directories tend to have different file sizes so you rarely get good use of the color scale.

For dates, it's not perfect. Dates don't seem to conform to a nice pattern; often you have most files from about the same time, and maybe a couple of newer ones, so often you only get about two colors.

[supercrabtree]

Coooool!! This is a way better idea

[zirrostig]

I definitely like the file sizes change on this. But I'm not sure about the dates. Could you possible make it so I could use just one or the other maybe something along the lines of

-G      --static-colors=WHICH            do not adjust color scale automatically
                                  WHICH=files,dates,both

obviously format that to be clearer. zparseopts should be pretty staightforward to do that with.

Otherwise looks great.

[dancek]

In these past two months I've forgotten all about the code. I'm also way too busy with our newborn twins. Hopefully someone else can pick this up.

[zirrostig]

Most of everything that's wanted is there, I will probably just pick it up in the next couple days. Thank you very much for the code as it is, it is something I really wanted to do or see done. Also congratulations on the twins!

[jirutka]

+1

[dancek]

Closing as obsolete.