Hi Allan, Thanks for the same-day reply. It's been a few years, so I'm guessing everyone's memory is a bit patchy (excuse the pun). If you take a look earlier in this thread, you'll see that you've (basically) already approved these changes. It is difficult to judge the screenshots without side-by-side current vs
patched. But from what I can see, most of the colour used is for the sake of having colour.
To make things easier for you, I've just added screenshots showing the current 'pacman' (colourised) output to the album <http://imgur.com/a/DL4ky>. The main purpose of having the extra colours is to make it easier for the brain to pick out the important bits (as noted earlier in this thread).
Colour should be used to highlight the important information. How do you decide the URL is more important than the dependencies for -Si? Why is the number of packages being installed highlighted yellow when that is only used for warnings?
As mentioned at/near the start of the thread, I'm mainly trying to reproduce the old "pacman-color" output. Having the URL in cyan and the dependencies uncoloured is the way that "pacman-color" used to do it. Similarly, "pacman-color" used to highlight the number of packages to be installed in yellow.
I'd like to see individual changes proposed, with justification of how they improve the readability of the pacman output.
Most of this has already been discussed earlier in the thread. Have a read of it when you get time and feel free to respond however you like. I realise that 'pacman' is your baby, and giving it tattoos is a big step :-). -- Regards, Xavion.