From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:36:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] status -s: obey color.status
Message-ID: <4B0EA06A.1050101@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <26d0a2022638ad7b75268ca291b8d02a22f1f66c.1259248243.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber schrieb:
> * Is there any policy regarding use of putchar/puts vs. printf?

If the printed string contains color escapes that should be obeyed, you
can use only fputs, printf, and fprintf. You should not use puts or putchar.

> * Even if I were to write tests for status -s: How do I test colors?

See t4034-diff-words.sh.

-- Hannes