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From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@×××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:12:26
Message-Id: 20070611100243.GA28666@bart.bertram-scharpf.homelinux.com
In Reply to: Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? by Karl Haines
1 Hi,
2
3 Am Sonntag, 10. Jun 2007, 15:06:03 -0500 schrieb Karl Haines:
4 > Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however
5 > that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily.
6
7 As far as I see, most e* tools respond on an appended "|cat"
8 or have at least a non-color option. Ok, still there are
9 cursor positioning sequences.
10
11 I tried to switch them off; I managed to do this only by
12 modifing </sbin/functions.sh>. Further, when I give the
13 --nocolor option to an init script only the second line of
14 those below will lose its colour, the first one still
15 appears in green and blue.
16
17 * Caching service dependencies ... * [ ok ]
18 * Setting clock via the NTP client 'ntpdate' ... * [ ok ]
19
20 Some time ago I happened to write an equery redesign in
21 Ruby, just for fun. It's far from perfect but it definitely
22 won't output any colors if you don't want them. Of course,
23 init scripts are more difficult to handle because they are
24 written in Bash. In case anyone finds the project is worth
25 being pursued, here's the code:
26
27 http://www.bertram-scharpf.de/tmp/equery.rb
28
29 Bertram
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33 Bertram Scharpf
34 Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
35 http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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