[PATCH 0/3] less: display ANSI colors with option -R

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 23 10:00:45 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
<rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not really convinced about the size of the "Add -R" hunk as
> it costs ~300b which is a bit too much for my taste. Anyone up to
> rephrase/redo this? This sounds more like it should fit into <150b ;)
>
> The whole thing was provoked by some systemd ctrl script outputting
> color sequences, btw.

It is not okay in Unix to pipe escape sequences to a non-tty stdout.

I don't think the rest of Unix world needs to accommodate it.

Pottering's attempts to force his crap down our throats have to be
called out and resisted.

-- 
vda


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