[PATCH] Colour terminal support for Linux console

[James Rowe]

Hi,

  The Linux console supports the coloured status display of Sphinx, but
Sphinx doesn't enable it.  The silly little patch attached fixes this.

  I realise it is possible to set COLORTERM to anything to get coloured
output, but it doesn't appear to be set by default on any of the distros
I have access to.  It is, I believe, worth noting that ncurses supplies
a linux-m terminfo entry for monochrome consoles so the change shouldn't
affect anybody who has mono misfortune ;)

Thanks,

James


diff --git a/sphinx/util/console.py b/sphinx/util/console.py
index 083fc6f..931f1ed 100644
--- a/sphinx/util/console.py
+++ b/sphinx/util/console.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def color_terminal():
     if 'COLORTERM' in os.environ:
         return True
     term = os.environ.get('TERM', 'dumb').lower()
-    if 'xterm' in term or 'color' in term:
+    if term in ('xterm', 'linux') or 'color' in term:
         return True
     return False
 

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