Ken wrote: > So I was surprised that git did color as well, because it sure > doesn't do that by default for me. Even though the man page > says that --color=always is the default.
The man page is confusing. It's trying to say that --color is the same as --color=always. It then says: "The default value is never." > I see that it doesn't quite work out of the box seamlessly, at least > for me. I need LESSOPTIONS to contain R to make it work. And I > also realize the true reason that I generally don't like colorized > output; the default colors are terrible. At least for me, with > "git log --color=always", there is very poor contrast for the commit > line output. It's yellow, so that would be bad on a light background. I guess whoever put that in git uses a dark background. git config lets you change colors. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
