On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:30:19AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 01/15/2014 08:27 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:47:40AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >> Is there a way to do $SUBJECT? One really shouldn't have to resort to using
> >> -L on every invocation to be able to see fdisk output.
> >
> > Does it mean that fdisk output is broken or you just don't like
> > colors? You can use:
> >
> > alias fdisk=fdisk -L=never
> >
> > in your shell profile or rc file.
> >
> >> I see nothing in the
> >> man page about any kind of config file. I don't think there's ever been a
> >> reason to configure it before.
> >
> > Well, I guess that more people prefer colorized output so this
> > feature is enabled by default.
> >
> >
> > I have already thought about it and it would be probably nice to have
> > a way how to globally configure colors for all command line utils
> > (e.g. util-linux, coreutils, ...).
> >
> > It seems we have no standard and package independent solution now,
> > so distributions use things like "alias" in shell profile files (for
> > example for ls(1), grep(1), ...). It would be nice to have at least
> > global variable (something like COLOR_MODE={auto,never,always}) to
> > avoid aliases with --color= option. (CC: Padraig ;-)
>
> I think the current mechanism used is best.
> I.E. default to showing colors when possible but give an option to disable.
As I made note on g+, on many places is the default not to show colors,
so we all have --color=auto aliases in shell profile files :-)
BTW, dmesg supports colors, but it's disabled by default -- what about
to enable it by default? (I don't want to add Fedora specific
/etc/profile.d/colordmesg.sh ...).
> Global env vars come with their own disadvantages.
Yes.
> However I will say that one has to be careful when using colors,
> and the use in fdisk seems a bit redundant. I.E. colors are useful
> to distinguish things, like the portion of a match in grep or
> the type of a file in ls. I'm not sure the items distinguished
That's exactly how fdisk uses colors :-) The another story are warning
and error messages, my experience is that people don't read it, so now
it's in red.
Karel
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