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Re:Show HN: Grep with colours written in Go by the_af on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:03AM (#17246746)
> a lot of programs I use have varying levels of colour-by-default, but I don't want that. What I want is to have them all off, except the ones that actually add value.

Your use case seems perfectly valid to me, but how would NO_COLOR help you? Wouldn't it suppress all color in all programs when it's set? Assuming everyone gets on board, of course.

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Re:Show HN: Grep with colours written in Go by mbrumlow on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:14AM (#17246826)
Yeah that seems to be what he wants!

He can then selectively enable color on the programs he wants by simply unsettling the NO_COLOR variable before execution of the program.

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