Re^2: test output in colour ?

[Ovid]

Yup, it's built-in. If we think the output isn't going to a terminal or if you don't have the correct modules installed, we disable the color output. You can also do this manually with the --nocolor switch.

[diotalevi]

The terminal detection is really annoying. I often pipe colorful output to `less -r'. If tools stopped istty() then my tools would work better. Same goes for ack.

[jasonk]

With ack you can override it, I haven't tried for for prove yet...

alias ack='ack --color --group'
alias plainack='ack --nocolor --nogroup'

[diotalevi]

Ah yes. I'd forgotten about ~/.ackrc. Silly.