Re: [PATCH] help: colorize man pages

Igor Djordjevic wrote:

On 21/05/2021 23:20, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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Igor Djordjevic wrote:

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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

This does not follow.

The contraposition of that statement is that if a text editor doesn't
use color sparingly, then the user should not be allowed to configure
such software.

Do you really think that's what they are saying? The user should not
have a choice? (with certain software) That's color fascism.

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Felipe Contreras