Re: color by default

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: color by default
Date: 2020-04-01 13:52:17
Message-ID: 71c8e1e4-9c3d-ef48-36fe-aae34b179639@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-03-30 10:08, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:56:15AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I didn't do this because it would create additional complications in the man
>> pages. But there is now an index entry, so it's possible to find more
>> information.
>
> Cannot you add a link to the page for color support in each one of
> them? That seems more user-friendly to me.

Do you have a specific phrasing or look in mind?

>> I'm not sure how to do that. The full list of possible values is huge, and
>> exactly what is supported depends on the terminal.
>
> An idea is to add a reference to SGR parameters directly from
> wikipedia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
> However I recall that you don't like adding references to
> Wiki-sensei. Please feel free to discard this idea if you don't like
> it.

Yeah, we could perhaps do this.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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