From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: P@draigBrady.com Message-ID: <52D6552B.6040704@draigBrady.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:30:19 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karel Zak CC: Felix Miata , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: global fdisk colors disable References: <52D62F0C.9060308@earthlink.net> <20140115082708.GH12700@x2.net.home> In-Reply-To: <20140115082708.GH12700@x2.net.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 List-ID: On 01/15/2014 08:27 AM, Karel Zak wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:47:40AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Is there a way to do $SUBJECT? One really shouldn't have to resort to using >> -L on every invocation to be able to see fdisk output. > > Does it mean that fdisk output is broken or you just don't like > colors? You can use: > > alias fdisk=fdisk -L=never > > in your shell profile or rc file. > >> I see nothing in the >> man page about any kind of config file. I don't think there's ever been a >> reason to configure it before. > > Well, I guess that more people prefer colorized output so this > feature is enabled by default. > > > I have already thought about it and it would be probably nice to have > a way how to globally configure colors for all command line utils > (e.g. util-linux, coreutils, ...). > > It seems we have no standard and package independent solution now, > so distributions use things like "alias" in shell profile files (for > example for ls(1), grep(1), ...). It would be nice to have at least > global variable (something like COLOR_MODE={auto,never,always}) to > avoid aliases with --color= option. (CC: Padraig ;-) I think the current mechanism used is best. I.E. default to showing colors when possible but give an option to disable. Global env vars come with their own disadvantages. However I will say that one has to be careful when using colors, and the use in fdisk seems a bit redundant. I.E. colors are useful to distinguish things, like the portion of a match in grep or the type of a file in ls. I'm not sure the items distinguished in fdisk non obvious and worth the hassle of worrying about color. thanks, Pádraig.