[gst-devel] [PATCH] turning off log coloring on non-terminals

[David Schleef]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:46:52AM +0200, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> 
> hi.
> 
> while i'm fully committed to colored debug output: when piping to files
> or processes most people (well, at least myself) tend to desire no
> escape sequences automagically.
> 
> matches the behavior of all the common tools. e.g. compare 'ls
> --color=auto' vs. 
> 'ls --color=auto |cat'.
> 
> ok?

Personally, I'd find this change highly annoying, since I often output
debugging information to a file and then view it with 'less -r' or
something that handles VT102 escape sequences.



dave...