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Don't use ANSI colors when terminal is dumb#710

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@tpope tpope commented Jan 21, 2020

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It is possible for stdout to be a tty and still not support ANSI colors. One example of this is the :! command in GVim or MacVim. I had long assumed that the only way to reliably detect this was to introduce a heavyweight dependency such as libncurses, but recently I learned that checking that the environment variable TERM is set to a value other than dumb is largely sufficient. This is what Git does, for example:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/0d0ac3826a3bbb9247e39e12623bbcfdd722f24c/editor.c#L11-L15

This patch implements identical behavior for Thor.

@rafaelfranca rafaelfranca merged commit 6610df3 into rails:master Jan 22, 2020
@tpope tpope deleted the dumb-terminal branch January 27, 2020 15:41
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