On 2018-01-09 19:27:10, The Tick wrote: > > Seems to me that most people will either use script or redirect the make > output to a file. Computers are simply too fast and the output too > (...) If you use GCC > you will probably have noticed that it inserts ansi color escape sequences > in an attempt to highlight portions of the messages. If you peruse the > typescript file or log file of your build then these escape sequences are > very distracting and make it more difficult than necessary to read the > message.
GCC is not the only tool with a console UI that does that. In the "white text on black background" (or vice versa) world, this actually works somewhat acceptably (minus readability issues). Other color combinations of terminals - not so much. And you do not know from within the application what your console's fore- and background colors are (you may possibly sometimes, but usually you don't). So please, if you're a SW dev who is reading this and thinking about adding color output to your tool of choice, think how it'll look on white-on-red, yellow-on-green, black-on-darkgoldenrod, ... , wisen up, don't add it or do, please, add an option to turn it off. Thanks. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
