On 6/10/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 10 June 2007, Karl Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re:
FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love
with colorized output?!?':
> Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however
> that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily.
It should also be turned off by default for anything that's not a terminal.
or a terminal whose termcap/terminfo/etc. doesn't support the ANSI color
feature. One of the most annoying things I've ever seen is ANSI escape
codes in emails and/or log files. Gentoo is fairly good about that now,
but I'm still having problem with RoR misbehaving in this way.
I also dislike the colorization, but for a more specific reason. Gentoo seems
to assume one is using white on black rather than the default black on white
in terminal windows. This makes yellow lettering entirely unreadable to me.
If I could just change all occurrences of yellow to orange (otherwise not
much used) I'd probably not mind so much, but the entire scheme seems
to be hard-coded. And I don't like white-on-black even though it's labelled
"Linux console" in Konsole.
++ kevin
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