Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Enable automatic color output by default.

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:19:00 -0700

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 04:45:23 +0000
Sam Foxman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Sam Foxman <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: Sam Foxman <[email-masked]>
> Subject: [PATCH iproute2-next] Enable automatic color output by
> default. Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 04:45:23 +0000
> 
> Automatic color should be enabled by default because it makes command
> output much easier to read, especially `ip addr` with many interfaces.
> Color is enabled only in interactive use, scripts are not affected.
> ---
>  ip/ip.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Changing the default is likely to make existing users upset.
If there was a generic way to ask for color (ie across ls, ethtool, etc)
then iproute2 could follow that.

For now if you want automatic color just use aliases like almost every
Linux distro does now for ls.

This change gets a no from me.