On Oct 25, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> writes: > >> As for the portability of ANSI terminal escape codes, it’s still best >> to delegate such things to curses or libraries like it, despite the >> near ubiquity of ANSI-family terminal emulators.
I didn’t quite finish that thought: “…because at the very least, you can then say 'TERM=dumb myprogram’ to strip terminal escape codes on an ad hoc basis.” > Colors are already automatically used when possible [1] and can be > disabled with the AM_COLOR_TESTS environment variable. Right on. Any reason it doesn’t back that up with “test -t 1”, though?
