Re:Disabling ANSI color output
by iforgotpassword on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:55AM
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Distracting from what? Are you just looking at the colors and nothing else as soon as there are any? I think colors are a great way to enhance output, as it is like a third dimension to formatting. Needless to say there might be tools that use them in silly ways, but for example having errors in red immediately can signal something bad happened.
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> Distracting from what? Are you just looking at the colors and nothing else as soon as there are any?
Yes.
> I think colors are a great way to enhance output, as it is like a third dimension to formatting.
I don't. I view them as a OOB marker that causes the coloured content to effectively jump the queue into my brain.
> having errors in red immediately can signal something bad happened.
As a specific counter-example: I'm often interested in the log output that occurred right before something bad happened, so having errors in red is exactly what I don't want.