On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 14:32:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
As has been announced, DMD now has colorized syntax
highlighting in error messages:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
With 2.075's release near, now would be a good time to decide
on a nice color palette that looks fine on most terminals. So,
please vote:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6943
Obligatory:
- Yes, not everyone likes colors. You can turn all colors off
with a command-line switch.
- Yes, everyone agrees that having all colors be configurable
would be good. We still need defaults that are going to look OK
on most terminals.
- Yes, no matter what colors we choose, they're going to look
bad on some terminal somewhere. Let's worry about the major
platforms' most common terminals for now.
This will be a nightmare if you do not allow it to be
configurable! Hard coding anything is very bad when others are
will use it.
Make a default color scheme that works for the majority as you
are, but then allow it to be easily changed. E.g., it can read a
config file or passed through the command line(possibly different
color schemes can be selected). Do it right or suffer the
consequences!
