Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium Target-2.5.6
New issue 777 by pekka.klarck: Disable colors in console output
automatically when output redirected to file
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=777
Nowadays when redirecting outputs to files on non-Windows machines you need
to use `--MonitorColors off` to disable colors that mess up the outputs. We
could trivially determine are outputs redirected by checking
sys.__stdxxx__.isatty() and disable colors if they are. There shouldn't be
need to use `--MonitorColors off` after that at least in normal cases.
After issue 753 is done we support colors also on Windows. The automatic
enable/disable mechanism should thus only check isatty() and ignore OS.
