GNU bug report logs - #20062
[PATCH] diff: add support for --color

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan <at> redhat.com>

Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 21:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #137 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gisle Vanem <gvanem <at> yahoo.no>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#20062: bug#20062: [PATCH] diff: add support
 for --color
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:26:13 +0200

Paul Eggert wrote:

> I finally got around to looking at it.  Doesn't it have the problem that if you type Control-C while it is in the middle
> of outputting a change-color sequence, your terminal may end up in a strange state?

No. He added a 'reset_color_context (true);' inside
'signal_handler()'. I've applied the colour-patches + my own WinCon
patches to get colours on Windows. It has worked fine for 5 mounths.

Reading diff-output with colours if so much more plesant than
moin-chrome. Please add the patches ASAP.

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