[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add colours to warnings and errors

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:06:27PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 02:14:32PM +0200, James Darnley wrote:
> >> If you can't query the background colour, then I am going to assume it
> >> is black.  If your terminal isn't then you need to fix it.  This is
> >> looking more and more like a Windows only feature.
> >> 
> >> Yuvi suggested that I not set the bg and that I use 1 instead.  For
> >> him this sets bold, for me it sets bright colours.  So then there
> >> could be a terminal which has a white bg but then sets bright colours.
> >> 
> >> Anyway, you guys thought it was ugly before...
> >
> > your patch is ugly still :)
> >
> > anyway, ive implemented it for ANSI now,
> 
> Thanks for breaking the display on millions of consoles.  You really
> need to learn how to listen to arguments other than your own.

your argument was about yellow on white, i tested it and found yellow
without the intensity/bold bit set quite readable even on white.

The actual breakage due to some terminals messing up with with ANSI codes
wasnt predicted as far as i remember. Either way the code is disabled
until we have a better way to detect ANSI support.

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