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Re: [Nmh-workers] colorized/highlighted scan output?

2012-11-03 00:35:47
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

Pretty much every modern terminal (emulator) supports color, so more
power to those that want to do add color to scan output.

But is it worth the added code complexity?

But that is not what the initial criticism was about, unless I veered
off course as I have been not following this thread in depth.  The basic
idea of adding color as being "silly" is a wrong, IMO.

Now, what you ask is valid, but that is based on a cost-benefit analysis.
Adding color has benefits, but it may not be worth the maintenance
costs.

It would be nice if the format syntax could support non-ASCII character
sequences without munging them since I think this will be useful beyond
including ANSI escape sequences.  If the whole color push motivates
some to to make it happen, more power to them.

--ewh

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