"brian m. carlson" <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> writes: > As a note, turning off color can improve accessibility for some people. > I have a co-worker who has deuteranomaly and virtually all colored text > at the terminal poses readability problems. It would be beneficial if > he could just set NO_COLOR=1 in his environment and have everything just > work. > > For this reason, I'm in favor of taking this patch, assuming it comes > with tests.
Oh, I agree 100% the world would be a better place if there already is an established way to turn off all colors, instead of having to run around and setting tool specific configuration like LS_COLORS etc. for 42 different tools one uses during one's daily life. I just am not getting the feeling this no-color.org's effort is the one. We already have a way specific to our project already (i.e. configuration variables), so if we adopt NO_COLOR but other people do not universally support it (and they support something else), we'd end up having to maintain yet another knob that only a handful of projects understand forever, and that is where my reluctance comes from.
