Re: b4 review available in master

Matthieu Baerts
2026-03-03T11:20:45Z

Hi Konstantin, Junio,

Thank you for this new feature! And for maintaining git :)

On 03/03/2026 05:26, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2026, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I hate to complain about trivialities, but the coloring scheme was
>> too noisy and with weaker color perception than normal folks, I
>> couldn't really see many of the UI elements in "b4 review tui".
>
> Junio:
>
> Thanks for giving b4 review a try -- and this is definitely not a triviality.
> A lot of it is "rapidly prototyped" with colours that made sense on my
> dark-mode terminal using textual's default pallette and I've not tried it with
> other colour schemes.
>
>> Is there a monochrome option that is usable by color challenged
>> people?
>
> There is now. The review TUI is built on top of Textual, which ships a
> built-in 16-colour ANSI theme that defers all colour choices to the terminal
> emulator. You can enable it by setting:
>
> export TEXTUAL_THEME=textual-ansi

Just in case, like many other TUI tools and libs, Textual supports
'NO_COLOR' env var [1]. So an alternative is to use:

NO_COLOR=1 b4 review tui

[1] https://no-color.org

Cheers,
Matt
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