[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 0/2] debug cli: improve output, optionally compare file content for `diff archive`

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 01/12/2022 um 08:30 schrieb Lukas Wagner:
> 
> On 11/30/22 17:27, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
>> nothing against this approach, but what about color coding?
>> (maybe additionally or as either/or?)
>>
> 
> That is already on my 'future improvements' list. My approach would probably
> be to leave the current output format as-is, and then add coloring on top
> as eye candy (on by default, disabled by flag/envvar or if stdout is not a tty)
> 
> 

Hmm, I could imagine that there might be some that would like to avoid a extra
* adding "noise" if I got all information from the color anyway, but can be always
improved later, if anybody requests it at all.

For the "should I color choice" the nicest and flexibel way that most CLI tools
adhere too is having tree level:

- always
- never
- auto (stdout on if tty)

As with "always" it allows one also for checking out bigger outputs in a pager with
color, e.g., by piping to `less -R`.