Re: Bug#396485: diff & sdiff: please allow full-color output (fwd)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:00:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Claudio Fontana <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > But to see this wonderful effect, I must open the
> > diffs in vim. GNU
> > diff and sdiff have no such feature.)
> 
> GNU emacs does it too (diff-mode), so I don't see
> a real need for this in diff itself.

I can see your point, but then `ls' and `grep' also get colors in
Emacs, and yet they can produce colors on the console as well.  Why
should `diff' be different?