[abstractbeliefs]

I'll speak for my case specifically: a lot of programs I use have varying levels of colour-by-default, but I don't want that. What I want is to have them all off, except the ones that actually add value.

I think it's apparent that this isn't something you're really keen to support in ag in the few times I've seen you talk about it, so feel free to close the PR I have open there rather than leave it hanging without any reply.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/1207

[the_af]

> a lot of programs I use have varying levels of colour-by-default, but I don't want that. What I want is to have them all off, except the ones that actually add value.

Your use case seems perfectly valid to me, but how would NO_COLOR help you? Wouldn't it suppress all color in all programs when it's set? Assuming everyone gets on board, of course.

[mbrumlow]

Yeah that seems to be what he wants!

He can then selectively enable color on the programs he wants by simply unsettling the NO_COLOR variable before execution of the program.