[pacman-dev] Please make the colourised output exactly like that of "pacman-color"

[William Giokas]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 07:57:45AM +1000, Xavion wrote:
> Hi Allan,
> 
> Tell me, did you ever actually use "pacman-color" before it was killed?  If
> so, it should be pretty obvious what's currently missing from "pacman".  I
> attached said "steaming pile of hackery" to give you the complete picture.
> 
> For starters, here are four screenshots
> <http://imgur.com/a/DL4ky>comparing "pacman" to "pacman-color".  As
> you can see, the colourisation of
> the latter is far superior to that of the former.  Accordingly, human
> brains can extract information faster from the latter's output.

This all depends on what you think is superior. You could probably get
scientific studies that say that one is better than the other, but it's
a matter of opinion. If you want, you can colorize those other strings,
if I'm not mistaken, it wouldn't take too much to do that even. I'd
suggest submitting some patches that improve the color output rather
than just complaining.

Thanks,
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