On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 April 2012 02:40, Joe Buck wrote: >> I'm not interested in color output, and would turn it off if it were >> implemented (the escape sequences would just mess things up when capturing >> compiler output in log files). > > There's no reason it would have to do that. Git does a great job of > colouring output automatically when printing to a terminal but not > when redirected to a file or pipe. It also automatically pipes output > through a pager when it won't fit on the screen, and because it runs > the pager internally it still knows the final output is a terminal and > so outputs in colour.
Yes, I do not think adding colored output is a challenge when done properly (e.g. checking that, for example, the output device supports ANSI control sequences even when it is a terminal, etc.) What I am concerned about is that the rush to have colored output may shadow the need to do it properly. -- Gaby
