From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:03:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] status -s: obey color.status
Message-ID: <4B0EA6DF.6070701@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B0EA06A.1050101@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2009 16:36:
> 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.

Oh, I don't use them with colors. I use only color_fprintf for that. I
was wondering whether there's a preference of printf("%c", c) over
putchar(c), for example.

>> * Even if I were to write tests for status -s: How do I test colors?
> 
> See t4034-diff-words.sh.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for the case that I do have to write test ;)

Michael