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Use CLICOLOR and CLICOLOR_FORCE

See original GitHub issue

Currently FORCE_COLOR is used to force color support. It would be great if we can agree upon some sort of standard for the name of this environment variable as many tools need something like this (e.g. compilers, build tools, …) written in lots of different languages.

As this really bugs me (working with Jenkins and atom-build and still not seeing colored output even though it would work), I’ve written a page about it here: http://bixense.com/clicolors/

What do you think? With CLICOLOR=0 this would also fix #31.

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Created 8 years ago
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sindresorhuscommented, Sep 24, 2015

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sindresorhuscommented, Sep 24, 2015

I’ll need to think about it, but tbh not a big fan of the CLICOLOR != 0 behavior and the fact that there’s two variables. I would have preferred a binary behavior CLICOLOR=0 for off and CLICOLOR=1 for on, if nothing is set it would behave as normal.

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