Re: Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

As I mentioned on the patch itself, I'd prefer if Git didn't do this.  I
have my own colors configured and don't want Git to render its man
output differently from what I have.  Even if I didn't, I wouldn't want
Git to change the output of man(1) to be different from what's on the
system.

I should point out that I have my shell configuration set up to use
different colors depending on the capability of the terminal, such as
using a 256-color palette when that's supported and a 16-color palette
when it's not, so there is literally no configuration that Git can
provide here that matches my existing settings.

git -c color.man=false help -m" would let you consume the output in
any way you want, I would presume?

Additionally, colors tend to pose accessibility problems for a lot of
people.  I have normal color vision, but because I use a transparent
background which renders as grey, the standard terminal red is nearly
illegible for me.  I also know people with colorblindness who have
problems with various colors or any colors at all.

Yes, accessibility issues are real.  But a bit of configuration to
disable colors would rescue our users.  I work on white-background
with black pixels, and colored diff output that shows lost lines on
the same background with red pixels is hard to read for me, but
thanks to color.diff.<slot> settings, I can customize it to draw in
reverse colors.