netdev - Re: iproute2: color output should assume dark background

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Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 17:40:32 +0800
From: Gedalya <gedalya@...alya.net>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>, 'Sirius' <sirius@...dheim.com>
Cc: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>,
 "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iproute2: color output should assume dark background

On 5/28/24 5:07 PM, David Laight wrote:
> An alias in .profile can add -c - leaving it easy to turn off.
> Especially for those of us who get fed up of garish colours.
> gdb is pretty impossible to use these days - blue on black ???
> Syntax colouring in vi make the code look like paint has been
> spilt on the page - wouldn't be too bad if it was subtle (and correct).

Debian is enabling color by default in their build. That's not an upstream issue.

Comments belong here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1071582

The --color=never option still works and you can set that in your profile, but we want it to work well out of the box.