Does it take into account the background color of my xterm so things do not become unreadable?
But there is a great joy in being able to release a new utility and say about it, "This is how it should work." It reflects your own desires, you understand it, you made the decisions that went into it and have actually thought about the alternatives. There's a delight there. It could be a sign of a piddling egotist, or of a developer who is excited about what real users get to see.
(I did this sort of thing once -- reimplementation of commonly-used, if more niche, thing + manifesto -- from more than 20 years ago: http://all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/)
My main hope for anyone doing this kind of thing is that not too many people actually use it. You don't want to get stuck supporting a tool like this for the world and its dog.
Tilting my head every time I wanted to read a title, I didn't fancy though :)
Nothing is more human readable than "123,456,789", so I think the problem is just the way you go about making them human readable. I couldn't agree more that lurching between B, kB, MB, and GB just because the file size changes it extremely jarring and disconcerting, and actually makes comparing the size much more difficult.
What would people think if all web pages on the internet had ugly black backgrounds?
From the doc, it doesn't appear that colors are customizable, yet. Pull request? :)
Worthy start for a default and you might want to contribute an exa config / env variable setting to solarized.
Shame, the idea is pretty neat. If you can solve that issue, OP, I'd love to give it a proper try.
If your blue doesn't look right on your dark background, why are you using that blue?
If your yellow doesn't look right on your light background, why are you using that yellow?
I mean i get how this can be a problem with hard-coded arbitrary values — you can't ever guarantee that e.g. #ff6600 will go with anyone's particular colour scheme. But these 8 or 16 standard colours are not hard-coded, they're configurable in every terminal i've ever used, including Windows's shitty command prompt. They can and should be set to a value that's appropriate for your background and text colours.
Maybe this is more a fault of the terminal/theme developers for providing unusable defaults. idk.