Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:28:55 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color, again, in grotty Message-ID: <20021021072855.GD389@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200210210705.g9L75t88021005@orthanc.ab.ca> References: <20021021065156.GB14584@sunbay.com> <200210210705.g9L75t88021005@orthanc.ab.ca>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:05:55AM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov writes:
>
> >> I agree. Grotty should get termcap color capabilities using TERM env. =20
> >> variable, if output isatty(). That is termcap purpose.
> >>
> >It is almost never isatty(), because the most typical scenario is
> >to pass the output through a pipe to ${PAGER}, or to a compressor.
I was trying to stay out of this discussion, so I did not post this
yesterday - the first thing that came to my mind when Andrey suggested
isatty() was the PAGER pipe. So, no, isatty() would not work indeed.
> The default output format for nroff (and grotty) must continue to be for
> a dumb, overstriking, hardcopy printer. Changing this breaks too many
> things. If the GNU folks insist on having color printing on their ANSI
> terminals they should create a groansi, use 'groff -Tansi', and leave
> nroff alone.
Seconded, strongly. This would be the best approach IMHO.
G'luck,
Peter
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