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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-02-09 22:23:27 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-02-14 15:52:36 +0100
commit5b6e31b020678dbbc289479b8ff1853c3fbd2085 (patch)
tree8960836e180b928a0ea893e365137713f3f4878a /guix/ui.scm
parent7ffcee1937671cbb318491076164fba4ef0b109c (diff)
downloadguix-5b6e31b020678dbbc289479b8ff1853c3fbd2085.tar.gz
ui: 'display-generation' uses color when talking to a pager.
This makes sure that, say, 'guix pull -l' benefits from colors when its
output is piped to a pager, as long as the underlying terminal supports
it.

* guix/ui.scm (display-generation): Add second argument to 'highlight'.
Diffstat (limited to 'guix/ui.scm')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm
index d1f92ce7be..238952723e 100644
--- a/guix/ui.scm
+++ b/guix/ui.scm
@@ -1900,7 +1900,9 @@ DURATION-RELATION with the current time."
            (link   (if (supports-hyperlinks?)
                        (cut file-hyperlink file <>)
                        identity))
-           (header (format #f (link (highlight (G_ "Generation ~a\t~a")))
+           (header (format #f (link (highlight (G_ "Generation ~a\t~a")
+                                               (or (pager-wrapped-port)
+                                                   (current-output-port))))
                            number
                            (date->string
                             (time-utc->date