http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45850
--- Comment #8 from Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> 2010-10-02 18:41:28 UTC --- On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:30 PM, manu at gcc dot gnu.org <gcc-bugzi...@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > 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. that PR is a proof of what? One reason we have standardized on 'warning: ', 'error: ', etc. prefixes is precisely so that IDEs or other tools can differentiate them. The fact that we have not succeeded in many other areas is more of a shortcoming than a design goal. >> (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: I think we may just have found two sets of people who disagree on what is readable with a dark background. Which is precisely the point of my original message.
