Option to not use color

StreakyCobra / gws

Colorful KISS helper for git workspaces

https://streakycobra.github.io/gws/

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Option to not use color #23

Closed ZvikaZ closed 7 years ago

ZvikaZ commented 8 years ago

Hi. This is an awesome tool! Thanks.

In my setup, the yellow color is unreadable (attaching screenshot) gws_color

Although it can be bypassed by piping the output (like gws | more), it'd be better if there was some flag, or config option, to disable the colors (or at least the yellow color...)

StreakyCobra commented 8 years ago

Hi,

This is an awesome tool!

Thanks. It probably needs more attention than I can give to it though. I don't have the motivation to fight with bash any longer. It's working as it is now (I still use it on every day basis), but there will not be a lot of improvements from my side :pensive: I still hope having time to create a new tool for the exact same purpose, but in a more maintainable language (scoop: I'm starting to learn and love Rust right now)

For your case, I can propose you some solutions (or workaround, depends on the point of view :wink:):

Define an alias that pass the output to cat to disable the colors (for me colors are an important part of my workflow so I'll probably not do this):
```
alias gws="gws|cat"
```
Edit (or disable) the colors directly in the script to adapt them to your need.
Use a better color scheme in your terminal, here it how mine looks like:

screenshot

ZvikaZ commented 8 years ago

Hi. Makes sense, I also try to get away from Bash... Good luck with the rewrite.

Just take into account that if you'll write it in a more popular language (maybe Python?) you'd increase the chances of getting code contributions...

I have few more enhacements suggestions. Are you interested? (would you prefere that I'll open a new issue for each?)

Thanks again, Zvika

StreakyCobra commented 8 years ago

Good luck with the rewrite.

Thanks, but I need to find some free time for this first :pensive:

Just take into account that if you'll write it in a more popular language (maybe Python?) you'd increase the chances of getting code contributions...

For sure, but I also want to use Rust in a real application, so… let's see :-)

I have few more enhacements suggestions. Are you interested? (would you prefere that I'll open a new issue for each?)

Yes it's always welcome, it could also be useful for someone else wanting to work on a project like this. Just open a new issue and list all your ideas there :smiley:

aveuiller commented 7 years ago

Maybe that's a bit too late, but I just saw this issue, quite randomly. I had the same problem as @ZvikaZ and made a quick branch on a fork to enable theming of gws, see here.

I can PR you the feature if you are interested.

StreakyCobra commented 7 years ago

This change looks nice. If you PR it I'll merge it. Also, as said in the README now, I don't have time to maintain this project anymore. If you have interest in doing so, please let me know :-)

emlun commented 7 years ago

This has now been merged into the main development branch, and will be released soon. Thanks for contributing! :)

I also split the color aliases a little more, and added the following:

C_ERROR: red, used in error messages
C_VERSION: red, used in the gws version command
C_HELP_PROGNAME: red, used in the usage help texts
C_HELP_DIR: green, used in the usage help texts