On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnus...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 15:08, Richard Quadling > <rquadl...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 2010/1/13 Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net>: >>> 2010/1/13 Richard Quadling <rquadl...@googlemail.com>: >>>> I've no problem with the default for coloured output on Windows be set >>>> to false. It is just a case of adding -c on to my command line, but >>>> disabling it completely means I've lost a useful feature of the >>>> logging system. >>> >>> Well feel free to set it to false by default, I just saw this as the >>> quickest for now, but if you want to re-enable it feel free to >>> >>> -- >>> regrads, >>> >>> Kalle Sommer Nielsen >>> ka...@php.net >>> >> >> I think the issue is that the default should be the same for both >> windows and non-windows. >> >> Personally, if the default is false, then everyone wanting coloured >> output needs to enable it. >> >> Anyone else? > > > If its possible to see if the terminal supports colors then enable it > by default.. > > -Hannes >
I think detecting if color is supported is a great idea, and certainly a middle ground for those who do and don't want coloring to be default. I am not a Linux expert, but from what I can see the shell doesn't explicitly set an environment variable like "COLOR=YES" (at least not on Ubuntu Server 9.04 using putty). On Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 it does set an environment variable "COLORTERM=gnome-terminal" However, the script could look at the environment variable SHELL and see if it is running a shell that supports color output. I have never used the third party program "ANSICON", does it set an environment variable? My thoughts anyways.
