Closed calebdw closed 1 month ago
I imagine tools will look up some specific environment variable like TERM
to figure out color support. However, I think before doing this, color support should work better (see #272 and there's an open PR that needs some work still). I was meaning to get to that but I was busy and prioritized the 0.8 release over this. I'll bump it up in my priority list.
Okay so looking at this it may not be that simple. Tools seem to check if they're running in a tty before enabling color when you use "auto" color mode (e.g. ls
, grep
, etc). The TERM thing I mentioned above would not work because that is always set so that'd mean if you do files=$(ls)
then you'd have colored output in $files
and that's not desireable.
I don't know if there's another solution but using a tty will be a huge amount of work as it will cause tools to use a wider range of escape codes that we'll need to deal with, like moving the cursor around, so I don't want to go that route.
Ah, well that's good to know!
Lots of tools use FORCE_COLOR
, so if there was a way to set environment variables, that would likely mostly solve it.
Hello!
Would it be possible to add a config option (or just set it globally) to enable terminal colors in the output from programs? It would be nice to globally enable so that I don't have to specifically configure every command to output color:
e.g.,
Thanks!