Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > The safest thing would be to turn off auto-color when LESS (or any of > the pager environment variables) is set at all (and not worry about > whether "R" is set; only know that _we_ are not setting it, so we cannot > count on it). But that would potentially inconvenience a lot of people > whose default color would suddenly go away.
That is just as safe as disabling color for everybody, isn't it? Half of existing users have LESS with R, and the other half do not have LESS at all. The former will be harmed, the latter will not see any difference. Oh, and then new users who do not know R for LESS will not even notice that Git could support coloured output. Those among them who read manpages and find --color option will then see ESC[33m in their output and we are back to where we started X-<. So I think we are already at the safest place. Those who see ESC[33m will know they are missing some good stuff and can ask around, which is better than doing anything else at this point. I think that is the same conclusion as yours, "there is nothing to be done." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
