Coloured diff/log by default

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin (gzlist) wrote:
> On 14/05/2009, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho at gmx.net> wrote:
>> On 14/05/2009 01:33, Daniel Clemente wrote:
>>> I'm wondering why, if Bazaar is meant to be usable, doesn't it default to
>>> the nicest output formats.
>>> [...]
>>>   So: why isn't „bzr diff“ an alias to „bzr cdiff“?
>> Because it doesn't work on Windows?
> 
> It's pretty trivial to get coloured output to the console under
> Windows, just call SetConsoleTextAttribute in kernel32 from pywin32 or
> ctypes. There's still little interest in making bzr on Windows work as
> well as bzr on Ubuntu, it seems.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 

There is more interest in getting a GUI written for Windows than getting
the command line polished. I certainly would rather see someone
polishing TortoiseBZR that implementing SetConsoleTextAttribute support.

John
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