On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:51 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <atomo64+deb...@gmail.com> writes: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I wonder if we should go all the way to making this a separate output > >> format, with the color option retained for backward compatibility. I > >> think that was proposed a while back. > > > Yeah, at first I hesitated to make the changes I have now proposed > > because colour ain't format. But yes, it might be a good idea to move it > > as an output format. I don't think other output formats work (well) with > > --color html anyway, do they? > > XML clearly doesn't. The <span> tags would end up encoded. > > LetterQualifier could work, but I doubt anyone is using that combination > and it's not compelling enough for me to care too much about preserving > it.
LetterQualifier respects the colour options, but outputs ANSI colour regardless of whether color=html was used. The other output formats don't support colour at all. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
