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| author | Harmen Stoppels <harmenstoppels@gmail.com> | 2021-04-28 15:03:25 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-28 13:03:25 +0000 |
| commit | 3f4c9aeca759812e09d10c17adb43ea30e4036da (patch) | |
| tree | 1c41b44ec0e1e82c543740ee08cc4818f0412e28 | |
| parent | 9faa3221b3c11bb633af38fa750fc9ee29b73312 (diff) | |
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Read colorization from environment variable, if command line is not set (#23130)
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/main.py | 3 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst index a8a45b65cb..db69ba42e9 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst @@ -27,12 +27,18 @@ It is recommended that the following be put in your ``.bashrc`` file: If you do not see colorized output when using ``less -R`` it is because color is being disabled in the piped output. In this case, tell spack to force -colorized output. +colorized output with a flag .. code-block:: console $ spack --color always | less -R +or an environment variable + +.. code-block:: console + + $ SPACK_COLOR=always spack | less -R + -------------------------- Listing available packages -------------------------- diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/main.py b/lib/spack/spack/main.py index be07aa3e5c..ecaf6d02f0 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/main.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/main.py @@ -354,7 +354,8 @@ def make_argument_parser(**kwargs): dest='help', action='store_const', const='long', default=None, help="show help for all commands (same as spack help --all)") parser.add_argument( - '--color', action='store', default='auto', + '--color', action='store', + default=os.environ.get('SPACK_COLOR', 'auto'), choices=('always', 'never', 'auto'), help="when to colorize output (default: auto)") parser.add_argument( |