Re: [PATCH] help: colorize man pages

> On 21/05/2021 23:20, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Igor Djordjevic wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > May I ask you how you interpret this?
> > 
> >   It is reasonable to configure certain software such as a text editor
> >   to use color ... sparingly
> 
> Sure, but to make the point (hopefully) even more obvious, let me 
> quote the whole part:
> 
>   It is reasonable to configure certain software such as a text editor 
>   to use color or other ANSI attributes sparingly (such as the reverse 
>   attribute for a status bar) while still desiring that other software 
>   not add color unless configured to. It should be up to the user 
>   whether color is used, not the software author.
> 
> I understand it exactly as (I think) it says - it is reasonable to 
> allow (the user, not developer!) to configure certain software to 
> (still) use color