There should be an option that mirror's the -F/--classify option for ls

[jmcantrell]

This is a common (ls, exa, tree, ranger, probably others) option that I think is very helpful when scanning the listing.

Depending on the path, a character is appended (with the default foreground color) depending on what the path is:

• @ means symbolic link (or that the file has extended attributes)
• * means executable
• = means socket
• | means named pipe
• > means door (not sure I've ever encountered this)
• / means directory

This is similar to icons, but a simpler alternative for those that just want a simple classification that's good enough without thinking about font support or every type of file that could be encountered.

Please consider this 🙏

[gokcehan]

@jmcantrell Thank you for your interest in the project and the proposal. I have thought about this feature a few times before in the past. While I think it is a reasonable feature, I should say we already have quite a lot of complexity in the code for the directory drawing, so I'm not sure how others might think. Still I think the idea is worth considering, so I will move the discussion to the issues.

[CatsDeservePets]

@jmcantrell
If you are willing to compile lf yourself, you can take the code out of my pull request that wasn't merged:

• Add classify option #1992