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@@ -103,6 +103,37 @@ defer color.Unset() // Use it in your function fmt.Println("All text will now be bold magenta.") ``` +### Disable color + +There might be a case where you want to disable color output (for example to +pipe the standard output of your app to somewhere else). `Color` has support to +disable colors both globally and for single color definition. For example +suppose you have a CLI app and a `--no-color` bool flag. You can easily disable +the color output with: + +```go + +var flagNoColor = flag.Bool("no-color", false, "Disable color output") + +if *flagNoColor { + color.NoColor = true // disables colorized output +} +``` + +It also has support for single color definitions (local). You can +disable/enable color output on the fly: + +```go +c := color.New(color.FgCyan) +c.Println("Prints cyan text") + +c.DisableColor() +c.Println("This is printed without any color") + +c.EnableColor() +c.Println("This prints again cyan...") +``` + ## Todo * Save/Return previous values @@ -86,5 +86,29 @@ code is not required. defer color.Unset() // use it in your function fmt.Println("All text will be now bold magenta.") + +There might be a case where you want to disable color output (for example to +pipe the standard output of your app to somewhere else). `Color` has support to +disable colors both globally and for single color definition. For example +suppose you have a CLI app and a `--no-color` bool flag. You can easily disable +the color output with: + + var flagNoColor = flag.Bool("no-color", false, "Disable color output") + + if *flagNoColor { + color.NoColor = true // disables colorized output + } + +It also has support for single color definitions (local). You can +disable/enable color output on the fly: + + c := color.New(color.FgCyan) + c.Println("Prints cyan text") + + c.DisableColor() + c.Println("This is printed without any color") + + c.EnableColor() + c.Println("This prints again cyan...") */ package color |
