> I have aliased diff to 'diff -u' in my shell, so I did the same for
> colordiff. However, this breaks further uses of colordiff in a pipe,
> since it *seems* to me that the presence of a single option arguments
> triggers colordiff into invoking /usr/bin/diff.
> % diff foo bar | /usr/bin/colordiff -u
> diff: missing operand after `-u'
> diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
So the solution could be entering "stdin" mode if stdin is not a tty, or
maybe just checking if all arguments are -options, and do not take those
into account when deciding between stdin mode or not.
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