Use POSIX-compatible versions of ls(1) opts

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/IDEAS.markdown b/IDEAS.markdown
index 145efb28..f7e3341b 100644
--- a/IDEAS.markdown
+++ b/IDEAS.markdown
@@ -9,5 +9,3 @@ Ideas
 *   Have eds(1df) accept stdin with the "starting content" for the script
 *   Convert all the manual pages to mandoc maybe? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandoc>
 *   Add "pop" and "shift" methods to path()
-*   `ls()` function flags can probably be made more generic by looking for
-    their short POSIX equivalents if any
diff --git a/sh/profile.d/options.sh b/sh/profile.d/options.sh
index aa7e9ace..345888d0 100644
--- a/sh/profile.d/options.sh
+++ b/sh/profile.d/options.sh
@@ -46,12 +46,9 @@ options grep \
 
 # Cache options for ls(1)
 options ls \
-    almost-all         \
-    block-size         \
-    classify           \
-    color              \
-    format             \
-    hide-control-chars \
-    human-readable     \
+    almost-all     \
+    block-size     \
+    color          \
+    human-readable \
     time-style
 )
diff --git a/sh/shrc.d/ls.sh b/sh/shrc.d/ls.sh
index 7e916239..40da567a 100644
--- a/sh/shrc.d/ls.sh
+++ b/sh/shrc.d/ls.sh
@@ -5,31 +5,26 @@
 # Define function proper
 ls() {
 
+    # Add -F to show trailing indicators of the filetype
+    set -- -F "$@"
+
+    # Add -q to replace control chars with '?'
+    set -- -q "$@"
+
+    # Format with entries sorted across, not down, in columns
+    set -- -x "$@"
+
     # Add --block-size=K to always show the filesize in kibibytes
     [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/block-size ] &&
         set -- --block-size=1024 "$@"
 
-    # Add --classify to show trailing indicators of the filetype
-    [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/classify ] &&
-        set -- --classify "$@"
-
     # Add --color if the terminal has at least 8 colors
     [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/color ] &&
     [ "$({ tput colors || tput Co ; } 2>/dev/null)" -ge 8 ] &&
         set -- --color=auto "$@"
 
-    # Add --format=horizontal to print entries in a saner way
-    [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/format ] &&
-        set -- --format=horizontal "$@"
-
-    # Add --hide-control-chars if present; we always want this interactively,
-    # even if the output is to a pager; we shouldn't be trying to script ls(1)
-    # output anyway
-    [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/hide-control-chars ] &&
-        set -- --hide-control-chars "$@"
-
     # Add --time-style='+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' to show the date in my preferred
-    # format
+    # (fixed) format
     [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/time-style ] &&
         set -- --time-style='+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' "$@"