http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45850
--- Comment #6 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-10-02 18:30:45 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:59 AM, manu at gcc dot gnu.org > > IDEs let users get the colors they want -if they ever wanted. The output of GCC is not designed to be parsed by IDEs: http://gcc.gnu.org/PR19165 nor is GCC designed to be tightly integrated with an IDE. > (the above is certainly a wrong default for me -- the background > of my terminal is always dark. :-) It is readable in my black background. It also looks nice here: http://fseek.me/2010/03/how-to-convince-any-c-developer-to-dump-gcc-and-use-clang/ and in the examples here: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2009-10/StateOfClang.pdf Those colors are also readable in a white background. But feel free to suggest defaults, and I will be happy with them. Of course, customization, like grep, and ls, could be added later.