[Bug binutils/29457] Consider making --disassembler-color=color default if terminal

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29457

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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         Resolution|FIXED                       |---
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED

--- Comment #7 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Jan Beulich from comment #6)
Hi Jan,

> I'm afraid I disagree. It not only doesn't look nice, especially register
> names are close to unreadable on a terminal with a black background. Nick -
> I'd like to ask that this be reconsidered. When Andrew first introduced the
> feature, I specifically asked that coloring not be made the default. And now
> it suddenly is 

Sorry - that is my bad.

> I would have been
> kind of okay if the envvar override had been accepted, but now I need to
> always remember to add a pretty long option to objdump, just for its output
> to be at least readable?

Fair enough.  What do think would be better: using an environment variable to
set the colours or having a configure time option which decides upon the
default
behaviour ?  Or both ?

Cheers
  Nick

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