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Re: automake: tap-driver.sh: cleanup and revival.


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: automake: tap-driver.sh: cleanup and revival.
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:56:48 -0500 (CDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (GSO 67 2015-01-07)

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017, Warren Young wrote:

On Oct 25, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:

It's also crazy that "--color-tests=y" or "--color-tests=1" won't work

While I like color in photos and nature, automatic colorization of output often causes problems for me since it often renders the text unreadable.

Why, exactly?

There are always assumptions about the terminal colors. It is often assumed that the terminal background is black but I use a light color background. Bright greens and cyans are virtually illegible for me.

Not all displays behave the same so what looks good one one display may be illegible on another.

I ask because the default color scheme of some terminal emulators makes the dark blue on black text difficult for me to read, but that’s easily fixed by switching the color scheme.

Switching the color scheme takes valuable time. When one visits many different remote systems using various client systems, it is a losing proposition to attempt to customize colors.

Well-behaved programs (e.g. GNU ls --color=auto, colordiff…) suppress color output when stdout is not a terminal. They do that by making calls like isatty(3) if written in C or test(1) -t if written in shell.

I sometimes make a typescript using 'script' and in this case colors will be output. Other times I use 'tee' to capture output while still seeing what is going on.

As for the portability of ANSI terminal escape codes, it’s still best to delegate such things to curses or libraries like it, despite the near ubiquity of ANSI-family terminal emulators.

Agreed. Yet, a mismatch wastes time. I would rather use something which works 100% of the time and looks less pretty than something which works 80% of the time but can be made to look immaculate.

Defaulting to being usable 100% of the time works for me. :-)

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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