I'm used to GNU ls --color highlighting broken symbolic links in a striking red background. But working today on a system I don't usually use at school I was shocked to get a directory listing that now had the link actually flashing. Apparently the good folks at GNU (or else on this system) really, really want me to notice and take corrective action should I have a stray broken symbolic link.
My standard profile turns off the coloured highlighting from ls because I find the colours to be either distractingly jarring or simply unreadable.
My preference is to turn on -F by default, so that I get the same information in a less disruptive way (directories have a trailing
If you're going to stick with the blinking, you'll want to avoid looking in directories where someone has used a cool symlink hack
