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Re: [Nmh-workers] colorized/highlighted scan output?
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] colorized/highlighted scan output? |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:31:54 -0600 |
Ken wrote:
> So I was surprised that git did color as well, because it sure
> doesn't do that by default for me. Even though the man page
> says that --color=always is the default.
The man page is confusing. It's trying to say that --color
is the same as --color=always. It then says: "The default
value is never."
> I see that it doesn't quite work out of the box seamlessly, at least
> for me. I need LESSOPTIONS to contain R to make it work. And I
> also realize the true reason that I generally don't like colorized
> output; the default colors are terrible. At least for me, with
> "git log --color=always", there is very poor contrast for the commit
> line output.
It's yellow, so that would be bad on a light background. I
guess whoever put that in git uses a dark background. git
config lets you change colors.
David