Running Taskbook thru watch disables colors
See original GitHub issueIs 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
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- Created 5 years ago
- Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)
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FWIW if you’re willing to use
fswatch
rather thanwatch
, you can do: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:
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:Can you add it to taskbook?
Many THX