From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support the NO_COLOR environment variable
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 00:38:03 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2401040017010.30739@angie.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5ti8d4y.fsf@tromey.com>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Andrew> I've never understood the passionate hatred some folk have for coloured
> Andrew> output! But NO_COLOR sounds like a fairly reasonable request, so I'm in
> Andrew> favour of adding this. I did have some thoughts on the testing...
>
> Me neither but it seems pretty simple to accommodate them.
I came across this message late, but I find it worth commenting anyway.
I can't speak for other people, however in my case multicoloured output
distracts me and hurts my eyes. As simple as that, and there is no hatred
involved. All the people are not the same and I appreciate that for some
people multicoloured text may be easier to follow instead.
Thank you for adding this feature.
Maciej
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-04 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-16 0:09 Tom Tromey
2023-09-16 5:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-16 8:39 ` Matt Rice
2023-09-16 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 14:11 ` Tom Tromey
2023-09-18 10:03 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-09-19 14:13 ` Tom Tromey
2023-09-26 13:48 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-01-04 0:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
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