turn off colors?

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• What is the current behavior? When using the CLI (cdk diff, cdk deploy, etc.) the output is colored. Some colors are hard to read on a dark background, especially blue.

• What is the expected behavior (or behavior of feature suggested)? Would like to be able to turn off coloring using an option, and/or select a different coloring scheme. Something like --color=[ light | dark | none ] might work.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior or adding this feature? Usability.

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • CDK CLI Version: 0.35.0
  • Module Version: 0.35.0
  • OS: all
  • Language: all

• Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. associated pull-request, stackoverflow, gitter, etc)

  vim’s default color schemes might be good place to quickly check what works. Personally I tend to use “elflord” on machines where I have not customized vim. “ron” is also common I believe.

[bgdnlp]

I have updated the original post to put it in the format of a feature request, hopefully it’s more understandable now, sorry. Thought I’d check if maybe I missed something first.

[shivlaks]

closing this issue as we’ve added some documentation around the --no-color option with the PR that @nmussy submitted.