Re: Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-05-17 at 16:48:04, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > This looks much better.
> > 
> > I wonder a good follow-up (hint, hint! :) would be to have
> > exec_man_man() and exec_man_cmd() in builtin/help.c set this depending
> > on color.ui (so we'd do it by default with "auto").
> > 
> > Then e.g. "git help git" would look prettier than "man git".
> 
> As I mentioned on the patch itself, I'd prefer if Git didn't do this.  I
> have my own colors configured and don't want Git to render its man
> output differently from what I have.

It won't.

> Even if I didn't, I wouldn't want Git to change the output of man(1)
> to be different from what's on the system.

That's a preference others don't share.

> I should point out that I have my shell configuration set up to use
> different colors depending on the capability of the terminal, such as
> using a 256-color palette when that's supported and a 16-color palette
> when it's not, so there is literally no configuration that Git can
> provide here that matches my existing settings.

Once again; your configuration is not going to be overridden.

> Additionally, colors tend to pose accessibility problems for a lot of
> people.  I have normal color vision, but because I use a transparent
> background which renders as grey, the standard terminal red is nearly
> illegible for me.  I also know people with colorblindness who have
> problems with various colors or any colors at all.

Their configuration won't be overridden either.

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Felipe Contreras