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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 23:27:33 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlf8c2k2y.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YKNptH9DL6pe18Dk@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 18 May 2021 03:16:04 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:27:23PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> > So in short, the color.pager is about "is the pager capable of
>> > colors?"
>> 
>> That's not the case.
>> 
>> Even the documentation says so:
>> 
>>   color.pager::
>>     A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
>>     use (default is true).
>
> I think that documentation misses the reason you'd want to use it.

Thanks for digging and I agree that this one is quite bad---no
wonder it misled to the "why not color.pager?" question.

The configuration is solely used to disable (because it defaults to
true) colors when pager is in use and the configurations on the
application side (i.e. color.ui and friends) specify "auto".  We
should update the description.

> And so likewise, we would want to avoid turning on colors if the user
> has set color.pager=false. Usually this is done automatically because
> want_color() checks, which knows if we are using the pager or not.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-15 22:10 Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 16:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-17 19:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-17 22:44     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 22:54       ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-17 23:33         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  1:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18  4:27         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  7:16           ` Jeff King
2021-05-18 13:21             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18 14:27             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-05-18  1:28   ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-18  2:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18  4:35       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  4:31     ` Felipe Contreras

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