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And then we have the absolute mad men that just want to disable colors altogether[0]. I am tempted to try it myself, but I also like the pretty colors.

[0] https://no-color.org/

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is my only vim configuration because terminal color sets were designed by computer programmers and electrical engineers and other people who don’t understand that the important thing about colors is not the colors but the brightness.

If you get used to monochrome terminals, you'll start to find that most colours are distracting and attention-getting. I wonder if there's a correlation between those who don't want colour in their terminal and those who have a very strong adblocker and/or extensively use reader mode in their browsers.

I take the Incredibles approach: When everything is coloured, nothing is.

Color sequences are not portable and known to break things (e.g. Jupyter sessions crashing due to colored pytest reports) and nothing but a liability if you're just piping the output. I think it's more about having the option.

Sounds like those pieces of software should also work on being more resilient to color sequences.

Me, for one.

Especially coding, I find almost all coloring to be distracting and counterproductive. Doubly so when I'm bouncing back and forth between Linux ans Windows. Many tools' default use of color borders on (or crashes head on into) unusable.

Some tools offer a --color=never option, and a good number respect NO_COLOR. Unfortunately, not all do, and even those that purport to assume that those modes will only be used for use in pipelines, programmatic interfaces, and such. That leads to all sorts of unfortunate behavior.

I'm moving in that direction. See zenbones. I ended up with https://github.com/savq/melange-nvim

They have a consistent color scheme concept of semantically significant color temperature, while leaning warm to save your eyes from staring at so much blue light. Comes with alacritty colorscheme

I'd rather see this than colorful anime backgrounds and emojis in shell prompts.

Same. There are few things that annoy me more when working in the shell than unexpected emojis in outputs to be cute or more accessible or whatever. I'll take the occasional readline and curses shenanigans but even then there's usually a way to disable those to have pure character outputs and no control chars.

I was using "script" command to record my interactions on the terminal and with colors, it was a mess. Pretty sure there are other legitimate use cases.

These are presumably the same people 'raw dogging' trans-oceanic flights.

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