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Re:Disabling ANSI color output by ishitatsuyuki on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:37AM (#16322856)
This doesn't make sense. There's no point in disabling color, and even if we need we can just pass the de-facto standard option. The homebrew guy did the right thing, and putting it on the list like "hall of shame" is definitely is not a good idea.
Re:Disabling ANSI color output by majewsky on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:05AM (#16323164)
> There's no point in disabling color,

As someone else said, "I like strawberries, therefore everyone likes strawberries". A quick summary of potential reasons:

- it's distracting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323038)

- colorblindness (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322796)

- bad default color schemes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322812)

- escape codes may break text processing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322600)

Re:Disabling ANSI color output by kelnos on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:39AM (#16323071)
Homebrew doesn't have an option at all to disable color.