Add a way to always do colouring
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Description
We currently disable coulouring when piping or other reasons. It woudl be nice
if we can have a way to enable it, i would suggest that we mimic the grep
command --color flag (implemented by others), i.e: from the manpage :
--colour=[when, --color=[when]]
Mark up the matching text with the expression stored in GREP_COLOR environment variable. The possible values of when can be `never',
`always' or `auto'.
/kind feature
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Research direction
Start by locating the CLI's existing colouring behavior and the command output path used when results are piped. Compare its handling with grep's --color/--colour modes, then define completion as supporting never, always, and auto behavior so piped output can be explicitly coloured.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100