grumble about GNU info
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 16 15:00:36 UTC 2008
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:07:37AM -0500, Eric Battersby wrote:
> I was not aware that 'tty' had been discontinued (or deprecated).
> The sub-options of '--color' were 'yes,no,tty'.
> Now they are 'never,always,auto'.
> I question these pointless changes.
I was using --color=auto 10 years ago, and I have never seen the option
be tty. Makes you wonder if some distribution changed it to tty at some
point while the normal option was auto. Certainly I have used auto on
many distributions over the years and never seen tty before.
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