Marco Leise wrote: > Am 09.10.2011, 12:32 Uhr, schrieb Jens Mueller <[email protected]>: > > >Johannes Pfau wrote: > >>Jens Mueller wrote: > >>BTW: you could also use isatty (http://linux.die.net/man/3/isatty) to > >>detect if stdout has been redirected and disable color output in that > >>case. > >>For windows: > >>https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=21194 > >>or > >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/f4s0ddew(v=vs.80).aspx > > > >Nice idea. Thanks. > > > >Jens > > But allow the programmer to force color output anyway. In some cases > you redirect to a program that itself supports or passes through > escape sequences. "grep --color=always <regex> <file> | less" would > be an example of that.
Make sense. Thanks. Jens
