Mark Eichin schrieb: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2) The person I'm debating with has said that on dumb terminals >> sphinx-build outputs ANSI where it is not appropriate and thus produces >> unreadable output. Should I ask him to clarify how he tested this or >> should I make the suggestion that sphinx-build test its environment >> before outputting color sequences? (Personally, I like the colors, but >> this person says that dumb terminals and colorless-ttys are common in >> his build environment.) > > I filed that as a debian bug (#501629 but it looks like #503053 is > also similar) and it was marked forwarded (here?) already. it's easy > enough to test - just use m-x compile in emacs to run any of the > sphinx commandline tools, and notice that they're full of garbage :-) > > I suggested a few possible fixes. It's definitely a bug (fortunately > there's the -N workaround.) It's not a matter of liking color or not, > it's a matter of what you get when you don't have it....
I fully agree with you. I've already fixed this on trunk. Color is now only applied if $COLORTERM is set, or $TERM contains "xterm" or "color". Most terminals supporting color I've looked at work with this spec. cheers, Georg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
