From baf9f9572fe626c6fa05ab080c44ac8123e27d47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben S <ogham@bsago.me>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:46:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Highlight link number for files with multiple links

Curiously enough, this turned out to be helpful today... Git can't
traverse symlinks, so I had to use hard links instead, and then I had to
work out which files had more than one link at a glance. If I hadn't
already had most of exa written, I'd be stuck using find!
---
 colours.rs |  2 +-
 file.rs    | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/colours.rs b/colours.rs
index 4494315..317633d 100644
--- a/colours.rs
+++ b/colours.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ impl Colour {
             Black => "40".to_string(),
             Red => "41".to_string(),
             Green => "42".to_string(),
-            Yellow => "44".to_string(),
+            Yellow => "43".to_string(),
             Blue => "44".to_string(),
             Purple => "45".to_string(),
             Cyan => "46".to_string(),
diff --git a/file.rs b/file.rs
index 8e7b653..f591292 100644
--- a/file.rs
+++ b/file.rs
@@ -94,7 +94,15 @@ impl<'a> File<'a> {
             Permissions => self.permissions_string(),
             FileName => self.file_name(),
             FileSize(use_iec) => self.file_size(use_iec),
-            HardLinks => Red.paint(self.stat.unstable.nlink.to_str().as_slice()),
+
+            // A file with multiple links is interesting, but
+            // directories and suchlike can have multiple links all
+            // the time.
+            HardLinks => {
+                let style = if self.stat.kind == io::TypeFile && self.stat.unstable.nlink > 1 { Red.on(Yellow) } else { Red.normal() };
+                style.paint(self.stat.unstable.nlink.to_str().as_slice())
+            },
+
             Inode => Purple.paint(self.stat.unstable.inode.to_str().as_slice()),
             Blocks => {
                 if self.stat.kind == io::TypeFile || self.stat.kind == io::TypeSymlink {
-- 
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