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LS highlighting in Terminal with Radian?

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Description

[Let me preface this by admitting that I do not know whether I should post the feature request or on Radian's github. Also, great stuff, thank you for all the work!]

I'm thinking that something that could be convenient would be to have ls highlighting/color-coding in Radian's terminal so that one is easily able to see which objects are functions vs lists vs dataframes, etc. I believe this shouldn't be too hard to implement, as such solutions exist quite readily in bash/zsh for instance.

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Research direction

First determine whether this belongs in vscode-R or Radian, then inspect the existing terminal integration and how R objects are represented there. Compare the requested behavior with the bash/zsh examples mentioned in the issue; done means the Radian terminal visibly distinguishes functions, lists, data frames, and other requested object types.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
bash, r, zsh
Domain
cli, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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