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Running Taskbook thru watch disables colors

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Terminal colors get disabled when running thru unix watch (at least on a Mac)

Describe the solution you’d like Terminals colors should still be displayed when running watch with the --color option set.

Additional context

The tab on to is running watch --color tb, while the one on the bottom is simply running tb

screen shot 2018-08-01 at 13 50 33

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

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chrissinclaireditedcommented, Aug 2, 2018

FWIW if you’re willing to use fswatch rather than watch, you can do:

clear && tb; fswatch -0 ~/.taskbook/storage | xargs -0 -n 1 sh -c 'clear; tb'

to get the watch functionality but only updating when the data updates. I’ve been running that on a mac and the colours all work well: screen shot 2018-08-02 at 13 37 17

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waldaufcommented, Mar 27, 2019

Hello, here I found out how to work taskbook with watch and have colored output. But at first I checked help output and there I didn’t find --color option:

$ taskbook -h | grep color
$

Can you add it to taskbook?

Many THX

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