From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 11:12:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeee44wp4.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YKMYUUVVVJMWH7xi@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Tue, 18 May 2021 01:28:49 +0000")
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> 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. 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.
>
> 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.
git -c color.man=false help -m" would let you consume the output in
any way you want, I would presume?
> 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.
Yes, accessibility issues are real. But a bit of configuration to
disable colors would rescue our users. I work on white-background
with black pixels, and colored diff output that shows lost lines on
the same background with red pixels is hard to read for me, but
thanks to color.diff.<slot> settings, I can customize it to draw in
reverse colors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-18 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-15 22:10 Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 16:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-17 19:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-17 22:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 22:54 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-17 23:33 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18 4:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18 7:16 ` Jeff King
2021-05-18 13:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18 14:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18 1:28 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-18 2:12 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-05-18 4:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18 4:31 ` Felipe Contreras
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