Colors are lost in the output of tasks

[Andrew Sheehan]

Thanks for the great tool!

I'm running "mix test" (and mix test --cover) in my tasks and when the output is displayed, it has lost the colors that mix test usually shows. Is there any way to re-enable this?

[Richard Kotze]

Hi Thanks. I'm sure there is. But will need to research it a bit. 👍

[Nicolas Oga]

It's worth nothing that this does not happen always. For example, I've configured eye_drops to run mix espec and mix credo. Espec outputs color, while credo does not.

When piping espec (mix espec | less) I see the broken ASCII color codes, but that does not happen with mix test and mix credo.

I remember this happening in some other context: the command being run detects being piped and skips the coloring. I think the solution was running the command with some flag that allowed to keep the coloring.

I don't see credo having this option though. May this is a credo issue?

[Richard Kotze]

I've not had time to look into this. But thank you for your feedback.
I'm happy for anyone to take this on. 👍