Re: [PATCH] help: colorize man pages

From: Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com>
To: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,
	Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: colorize man pages
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 21:48:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8811383b-d5f1-2b06-8ac7-47bbc5fc9d20@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60a7f7427eab6_55039208ba@natae.notmuch>

Hi all,

If I may, NO_COLOR approach seems to be rather straightforward to me, 
as per description on their homepage[1] - make all software supporting 
it behave as colors are an opt-in feature, thus disabled by default.

And that's all there is to it.

Software which is able to but does not show any colors by default does 
not need to care at all, as colors are an opt-in feature there already, 
so NO_COLOR serves no purpose.

On the other hand, software which does enable (at least some) color 
by default, without user explicitly setting anything but requiring 
opt-out to disable color instead, should treat NO_COLOR precisely as 
that user requested opt-out, with an obvious convenience for the user 
being able to set NO_COLOR globally once and have all the programs 
supporting it recognize it as color opt-out exactly, without a need  
for the user to opt-out in each and every program separately 
(and differently).

So, the whole point is make the default value be "no color" for each 
and every application consistently, where user (and _not_ developer) 
needs to opt-in in order to enable colors (in each and every 
application where colors are in fact still desired).

Regards, Buga
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[1]: https://no-color.org/