Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#20062: bug#20062: bug#20062: [PATCH] diff: add support for --color

From: Andreas Grünbacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 21:55:03 +0100

2015-03-14 21:29 GMT+01:00 Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>:
> 'grep' and 'ls' default to the equivalent of NEVER; shouldn't 'diff' do the
> same?

I think color terminals are the standard nowadays, but if you think
that the default should be 'never', I could live with that. In any
case, the program help text is wrong, too:

>      --color[=WHEN]         colorize the output; WHEN can be 'never', 'always',
>                               or 'auto' (the default)

The default for WHEN is still 'always', but when the option is not
used at all, the default is either 'auto' (my preference) or 'never'.
Confusing ...

Thanks,
Andreas