First of all, I want to thank everyone who runs this forum for the fine job they've done. While I myself have not yet had any need for help, I have enjoyed and learned while helping others.
Due diligence disclaimer: I searched for a discussion on this issue, using "tynt" and "copy paste", but found none. Hopefully, I did not miss it. Also, I searched my control panel to see if there was already a remedy there, but I found none.
Okay, now down to business
When trying to help someone, I can't even paste their one-liner into a terminal window without it causing problems.
Having to delete that in a text editor when copy-pasting someone's sample data is just a mild annoyance, but to have that in the terminal is just terrible. It produces junk on the screen, junk in command history, and in a case-insensitive environment with vim installed (osx, for example), "View Original: ....." brings up vi in read-only mode.
For the love of all that you hold dear, is there any possibility that the tynt tracer script can be nuked from orbit? If not, can the char limit before it kicks in be bumped up a bit, so that it allows copying a few lines of code/data before it kicks in? If not, perhaps users who have enough bits or helpful posts could have access to a knob in their control panel to disable it? If not, perhaps it can only be included on pages for threads that have not had any activity in a day or two? (I'm just tossing out ideas in case any of them are palatable.)
If there is no chance of this going away, I would appreciate an explanation. Not because it is owed to me -- I do not feel any entitlement in that regard -- but because I am simply curious to know why something with such an obvious downside is embraced (does it help that much with traffic and/or attribution?).
Any consideration you give this post is greatly appreciated. Worst case, I'll just go back to using the javascript-less environment I was using. The downside of that is that notifications tend to go unnoticed for days. Not such a big deal, I suppose.
Again, despite my first thread being a whinge, I sincerely appreciate the work the staff has put into the site. It's a nice place. Keep it up.
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I found this rather amusing. If you go to www.unix.net now you will see the OpenGroup selling license plates that read "Live Free or Die/Unix/Unix is a trademark of the OpenGroup"
(http://www.unix.net/unix_plates.html)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
set_color
set_color(1) fish set_color(1)NAME
set_color - set_color - set the terminal color
set_color - set the terminal color
Synopsis
set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR]
Description
Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple,
cyan, white and normal.
o -b, --background Set the background color
o -c, --print-colors Prints a list of all valid color names
o -h, --help Display help message and exit
o -o, --bold Set bold or extra bright mode
o -u, --underline Set underlined mode
o -v, --version Display version and exit
Calling set_color normal will set the terminal color to whatever is the default color of the terminal.
Some terminals use the --bold escape sequence to switch to a brighter color set. On such terminals, set_color white will result in a grey
font color, while set_color --bold white will result in a white font color.
Not all terminal emulators support all these features. This is not a bug in set_color but a missing feature in the terminal emulator.
set_color uses the terminfo database to look up how to change terminal colors on whatever terminal is in use. Some systems have old and
incomplete terminfo databases, and may lack color information for terminals that support it. Download and install the latest version of
ncurses and recompile fish against it in order to fix this issue.
Version 1.23.1 Sun Jan 8 2012 set_color(1)
04-24-2010
