On Thursday, 01.06.2006 at 22:44 -0700, t takahashi wrote: > i tested it and the hypothesis is correct. > > if you can't query the existing colors, then there is little that can > be done. it would be nice if ansi included that. > > i'd definitely update the man page to say that. it's kind of like > data loss otherwise.
This issue is, as you say, not mentioned on the man page; it is however
raised in /usr/share/doc/colordiff/README.Debian - maybe that's not
sufficient.
It's hard to know how to 'fix' this one, really. The problem is that
the default colours have to be set to *something* and there's always the
possibility of clashing with an end user's terminal preferences.
Right now, the default 'plain text' (not part of diff-ed output) colour
is 'white' ('black' in the example config file for light-coloured
backgrounds). Perhaps just changing the default from 'white' to
something else would be sufficient ... given that most people's
terminals will be either white text on black, or vice versa.
Dave.
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