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Suggestion: Make `--colorful` default

Open 2JS opened this issue 6 months ago • 3 comments

How do you all think about making --colorful on by default? I always run csvlens some.csv then realizes I need coloring. Not a strong opinion but just want to know how folks think!

2JS avatar Jun 18 '25 02:06 2JS

I agree that it's the better default. In qsv, I set it up to be the default and made --monochrome an option.

jqnatividad avatar Jun 23 '25 11:06 jqnatividad

I disagree. Monochrome is the better default. Color is way to noisy.

Knusper avatar Aug 19 '25 11:08 Knusper

Thanks for raising this! My preference is to keep --colorful as an opt-in option for now.

It's mostly personal preference. I personally prefer a calmer look without too many colors. The alternative --no-color doesn't actually remove everything either. Highlights are still shown in color, but that's just me being a bit picky.

I can see why having colors on by default would be more convenient for a lot of folks. I'm planning to add support for a config file, and this feels like a good setting to include there.

YS-L avatar Oct 28 '25 16:10 YS-L