From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: global fdisk colors disable
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:14:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D697C6.9000304@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D6552B.6040704@draigBrady.com>
On 2014-01-15 09:30 (GMT) Pádraig Brady composed:
> I think the current mechanism used is best.
What mechanism are you referring to, needing an override switch on every
invocation on an alien system?
> I.E. default to showing colors when possible but give an option to disable.
$SUBJECT Keyword: global.
> Global env vars come with their own disadvantages.
+1
> However I will say that one has to be careful when using colors,
Exactly.
> and the use in fdisk seems a bit redundant.
I think orthogonal is the better word than 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.
Indeed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 6:47 global fdisk colors disable Felix Miata
2014-01-15 8:27 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-15 9:30 ` Pádraig Brady
2014-01-15 10:24 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-15 14:14 ` Felix Miata [this message]
2014-01-15 14:10 ` Felix Miata
2014-01-15 15:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-16 9:24 ` Felix Miata
2014-01-16 9:59 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-15 17:11 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-16 9:06 ` Felix Miata
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