v0.29.0 clap upgrade to 4.0 results with --help not using colours anymore
kapitainsky opened this issue · comments
e.g., fclones group --help
v0.28.0 on macOS and Debian:
v0.29.0 - no more colours:
Maybe it is intentional but IMHO colours make --help much easier to read.
This is intentional.
During clap 3.0.0 development, we were looking at removing AppSettings::ColoredHelp, making it always on. This helped identify several problems with our existing colored help and started a broader re-examination of our --help output. For more background on each decision, I recommend you check out the parent issue
Problems with the colored help
The choice of colors was controversial, some liked it but others hated it. We want safe out-of-the-box defaults
Some applications have a specific branding to their color choices and clap's colors don't fit within that, so they would rather have none instead
Actually many (most?)) apps don't use colors in help, but just bold or different shades of gray/white.
Thank you for explanation. Fair enough.