On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:33:21PM -, Mark Stosberg wrote:
This well-commented perl function is_interactive may be of interest
when writing code that decides when to show color and use a $PAGER by
default and when to not. It is what the 'ack' utility uses:
The problem is that it's never safe to show color and use a $PAGER by
default at the same time, because color causes many popular pagers to barf
by default. So it's one or the other, not both.
--
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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