Possibly the best ‘color-blind proof’ method is reverse video. Not the best looking in all cases, but certainly effective.
From: Scott Robison Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:39 PM To: Fossil SCM user's discussion Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Colored output on console On Apr 24, 2016 4:07 AM, "Marko Käning" <mailto:sec001%2bfos...@posteo.net> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > it would be great if one could colorise Fossil’s output on the console! > > Quite a few times I missed an error or warning message which slipped in > between of many lines of the usual fossil output on the console. > > Red colouring of words like “warning” or “error” would be very helpful there. I will just observe here that typically red text on a black background is really hard for me to see. If someone were to add such a thing, having it be opt in would be appreciated. Different people have different, of course. I hate color blindness. > > The poor man’s solution would at least be to use capital letters and some > sort of line head along the lines of > > > ERROR: blaa > > WARNING: blubb > > Right now I can’t send an example of such a easily slipping through message, > but I can deliver if I come across one again. > > Greets, > Marko > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
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