[msgodel]

This shouldn't even need terminal coloring, in fact that sounds annoying because it's going to have to behave differently if you pipe it to less (or it's going to do something dumb like the rust compiler itself and just reopen the tty.)

This actually reminds me of my other issue with this kind of "oh we just get it for free" attitude that tends to result in overbuilding things that I also dislike in rust.

No I think people would be better off with a bespoke option parser actually.

[pksunkara]

Actually,

1. `color` feature and thus the `anstream` dep is optional.

2. Even if you use it, it handles all the behaviour correctly regarding the piping and no color support, which is why it is a dependency in the first place.

Source: I am clap maintainer

[rendaw]

Why is needing to behave differently when you pipe annoying? Are you saying it doesn't work? But also FWIW I don't think piping command help output is a common use case.

[msgodel]

It's useful if your terminal emulator isn't very good and the scrollback buffer doesn't work. This can happen for any number of reasons.

Or maybe I don't feel like using the mouse, or I want to do something like grep it. There are an unlimited number of reasons I might want that, that's how interfaces like these work.

[rendaw]

Are you saying your terminal emulator can't match on text with ansi color modifiers when searching?

[msgodel]

Are you going to demand it when you write your program? That seems like a regression from most CLIs with bespoke option parsers I've used.