Color problems in terminal with certain themes

[necolas]

This thing again :)

Running node app.js in a terminal with the Solarized dark theme (and a few others), results in this unreadable output:

Can I disable color output? Or might you be willing to use a gray that is visible in these popular themes, until they can be fixed?

The long-standing issue against Solarized: altercation/solarized#220

[passy]

+1, I usually switch to Solarized Light when I have an express app and would prefer Solarized finally fixing this, but an option to disable colors would still be helpful.

[tj]

you can use a non-"dev" format, the rest don't have colors, definitely a solarized thing, someone should just start a new 'official' fork haha, not sure, or maybe he can get a maintainer

[necolas]

other themes also have this problem, but i know that you have always rejected the suggestion of making a change in your modules.

you can use a non-"dev" format, the rest don't have colors

what does this mean exactly?

[huxxe]

maybe he meant express.logger('tiny') or express.logger('short') instead of app.use(express.logger('dev')). you can format the log string by your self and just the development settings would give the 'solarized thing'. You could build the logger dev format by your own without the color output too. just looking at logger.js middleware in connect

[tj]

I don't think we can go changing everything just because themes are incomplete, it's easy enough to use a theme that isn't as busted, or if that guy doesn't want to maintain solarized anymore I'm sure someone else would love to

[huxxe]

• ^ someone should use a plain terminal with normal colors for the dev tasks instead of blinky appterminals. IDE console works also fine for me.
  Edit: that the prebuild dev log format do_have colors is a really fancy thing on its own imo ^^