Disable diagnostic coloring by default
TO my suprise, GHC 8.2.1 enables colors by default which is rather annoying to me as it looks rather ugly with my terminal coloring scheme. This should follow GCC's model instead which defaults them off and allows to customize the coloring scheme via GCC_COLORS
. Quoting the GCC man-page:
-fdiagnostics-color[=WHEN]
-fno-diagnostics-color
Use color in diagnostics. WHEN is never, always, or auto. The default depends on how the compiler has been configured, it can be any of the above WHEN options or also never if GCC_COLORS environment variable isn't present in the environment, and auto otherwise. auto means to use color only when the standard error is a terminal. The forms -fdiagnostics-color and -fno-diagnostics-color are aliases for
-fdiagnostics-color=always
and-fdiagnostics-color=never
, respectively.The colors are defined by the environment variable
GCC_COLORS
. Its value is a colon- separated list of capabilities and Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) substrings. SGR commands are interpreted by the terminal or terminal emulator. (See the section in the documentation of your text terminal for permitted values and their meanings as character attributes.) These substring values are integers in decimal representation and can be concatenated with semicolons. Common values to concatenate include 1 for bold, 4 for underline, 5 for blink, 7 for inverse, 39 for default foreground color, 30 to 37 for foreground colors, 90 to 97 for 16-color mode foreground colors, 38;5;0 to 38;5;255 for 88-color and 256-color modes foreground colors, 49 for default background color, 40 to 47 for background colors, 100 to 107 for 16-color mode background colors, and 48;5;0 to 48;5;255 for 88-color and 256-color modes background colors.The default
GCC_COLORS
is
error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01
where 01;31 is bold red, 01;35 is bold magenta, 01;36 is bold cyan, 01;32 is bold green and 01 is bold. Setting GCC_COLORS to the empty string disables colors. Supported capabilities are as follows.
"error=" SGR substring for error: markers.
"warning=" SGR substring for warning: markers.
"note=" SGR substring for note: markers.
"caret=" SGR substring for caret line.
"locus=" SGR substring for location information, file:line or file:line:column etc.
"quote=" SGR substring for information printed within quotes.
Trac metadata
Trac field | Value |
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Version | 8.0.1 |
Type | Bug |
TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
Priority | high |
Resolution | Unresolved |
Component | Compiler |
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