On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 12:44 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote (paraphrased): > On 4/8/19 12:28 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote (paraphrased): [...] > > > [I hate colors] > > [I love colors] > I could live with [compromise] Sorry for opening that can of worms :-) How about doing something similar to 'ls': - an environment variable V4L_COLORS which, if not set, defaults to V4L_COLORS="ok=32:warn=1:fail=1;31" - an option --color=always|never|auto, which if not set, defaults to auto (check isatty()) - to disable colors by default, set V4L_COLORS to "ok=0:warn=0:fail=0" This would allow to pipe colors into non-terminal stdout like less -R if desired, or quickly disable colors with --color=never. The pattern could be extended to include dvbv5 log levels or fe tool quality levels. Or alternatively, V4L_COLOR=always|never|auto for easier configuration, but with a fixed color scheme? regards Philipp
