RE: iproute2: color output should assume dark background

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Sirius
> Sent: 23 May 2024 14:20

> 
> In days of yore (Thu, 23 May 2024), Gedalya thus quoth:
> > Yes, echo -ne '\e]11;?\a' works on _some_ (libvte-based) terminals but not
> > all. And a core networking utility should be allowed to focus on, ehhm,
> > networking rather than oddities of a myriad terminals.
> 
> Then it perhaps should not add colour to the output in the first place and
> focus solely on the networking.
> 
> A suggestion would be the iproute2 package revert the option to compile
> colourised output as default, sticking to plain text output as that
> require zero assumptions about the user terminal. Carry on offering the
> '-c' switch to enable it at runtime.

+42 :-)

An alias in .profile can add -c - leaving it easy to turn off.
Especially for those of us who get fed up of garish colours.
gdb is pretty impossible to use these days - blue on black ???
Syntax colouring in vi make the code look like paint has been
spilt on the page - wouldn't be too bad if it was subtle (and correct).

	David

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