On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:33:34AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:26:09AM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 11:19 +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:44:05AM +0200, Ondrej Oprala wrote: > > > > new file mode 100644 > > > > Hehe I actually started doing this last night. > > > > I'm wondering if we actually need a new lib file for colors. I mean > > AFAICT, dmesg is the only place we want to use it and I don't see that > > What about fdisk where we have many dialogs, warnings, hints? :-) It's > not about colors only, but also about bold, etc. > > The another possibility is namei(1) where we can provide output > compatible with ls(1), or cal(1), etc. > > > changing any time soon - Unix hackers don't like colors, we live oh so > > boring lives :) > > All this should be optional. I guess than many people use aliases with > colors > > $ alias | grep color > alias egrep='egrep --color=tty' > alias fgrep='fgrep --color=tty' > alias grep='grep --color=tty' > alias l.='ls -d .* --color=auto' > alias ll='ls -l --color=auto' > alias ls='ls --color=auto' I totally agree. Colored output from various tools could make it easier to work with, but it has to be optional. My 2c. Petr -- Petr Uzel IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
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