On 2019-Dec-31, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> It's easier to spot errors/warnings when they are colored/emphasized imo. Much
> like colored output from grep/diff; We humans have colored vision for a reason.
I do use color output (and find it useful), for that reason.
I'm not sure that the documentation addition properly describes the
logic to be used; if it does, I'm not sure that the logic is really what
we want. Is the logic in the docs supposed to be "last rule that
matches wins" or "first rule that matches wins"? I think that should be
explicit. Do we want to have NO_COLORS override the TERM heuristics?
(I'm pretty sure we do.) OTOH we also want PG_COLORS to override
NO_COLORS.
Per https://no-colors.org (thanks for the link) it seems pretty clear
that people who don't want colors should be already setting NO_COLORS,
and everyone would be happy. It's not just PG programs that are
colorizing stuff.
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