Re: [Quilt-dev] 32093 - QUILT_COLORS

[Andreas Grünbacher]

Martin,

2013/2/4 Martin Quinson <address@hidden>:
> And finally, I'd say that the info available on
> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/colorizing.html#AEN20229 are small enough
> to inline these information in the manpage.

it's really hard to document what works and what doesn't; there are
lots of different escape sequences, and terminal emulators don't always
handle them in the same way. I don't think quilt should bother with
all those terminal differences.

> Finally, I still don't know how to activate the coloring by default in
> quilt. Do people add --color on each and every command?

Via ~/.quiltrc or /etc/quilt.quiltrc.

Andreas