On Wednesday 04 April 2007 08:19:47 Graham Murray wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> writes:
> > First of all I believe most people (including myself) very much prefer
> > colors over no colors (no I cannot qualify with any numbers..). That does
> > not, however, mean that the pipe detection and --color switch etc.
> > shouldn't be honoured. It should (and it does here).
>
> Though, as less can display colours, it might be good if the pipe
> detection did *not* disable colour output but require the user to use
> the --no-color switch to disable them.

Not really. Just use --color=y if you want colors through a pipe.

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Bo Andresen