On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> which does not play well with the implementation of --column as done >> in tag.c. Where, If I'm not wrong the --column option captures all >> output, formats it and then prints it to stdout. Hence when using >> colors, we're told that the printing isn't done to a tty which >> supports colors, hence we lose out on colors. > > What I don't understand is how --column is different from --no-column > wrt colors. > > In any case, this should be explained better in comments. Well, If we use column the way we do in tag.c then it'll replace the tty and color will not print color because it will assume the output tty doesn't support colors. I hope that's what you're asking -- Regards, Karthik Nayak -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html