[Bug] loss of folder highlighting when calling "ls" about cmder

[chrisant996]

(Updated)

There is an ls doskey macro which expands to ls --show-control-chars -F --color.

Doskey macros are how aliases are done in cmd on Windows. Doskey macros are designed to only expand if they are the first thing on the command line. A space or command or >nul or anything else at the beginning of a command line disables doskey macro expansion.

It's not bug, it's just how they're designed to work. It means whenever you need to bypass a doskey macro, you can simply insert a space (similar to how you can bypass aliases in bash by adding quotes, e.g. ls runs an alias and 'ls' runs the raw ls program).

If you dislike how doskey macros behave, then you could use a batch script instead of a doskey macro.

[daxgames]

Then don't do that! 😉